Dr Jane Hall

Jane is Director of Studies in Architecture and a Bye–Fellow. She is a Teaching Associate at the University's Department of Architecture.

Biography

Jane studied for her undergraduate degree at King's College, Cambridge. Jane completed a PhD at the Royal College of Art in London in 2018, and her research looked at the legacy of modernist architects working in both Brazil and the UK. She is the inaugural recipient of the British Council Lina Bo Bardi Fellowship (2013) and founding member of the architecture collective, Assemble, who won the Turner Prize in 2015 for their work in Granby, Liverpool. Her particular focus is on interdisciplinary practice between artists and architects, and the emergence of alternative methods for architectural design. 

Jane has held a number of positions, including as jury member for the Stirling Prize (2017) and external examiner at the University of Cambridge. She has lectured internationally at The School of Arts Institute Chicago (SAIC), Princeton University and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), among others and is a visiting lecturer and regular critic at the Royal College of Art, Bartlett School of Architecture.

Teaching

Jane teaches across the undergraduate course in the History and Theory of Architecture. She is the leader of the second–year Architecture and Gender paper.

Research

Jane’s research has been published widely. She is the author of the book Breaking Ground, Architecture by Women (Phaidon, 2019) and Woman Made (Phaidon, 2021) about the work of women designers globally.