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Dr Matthew Hardy

Fellow, Visiting Fellow

Senior Associate Tutor, Department of Continuing Education

Department for Continuing Education

BArch (Adel), Dipl (PoWIA), PhD (Wales), FRAIA, RIBA, FRSA

Matthew works at the intersection of urbanism, urban morphology, architectural history, and climate change. He teaches at Oxford on the Sustainable Urban Development programme.

As Senior Lecturer in Architecture & Urbanism at The King’s Foundation, and a Senior Associate Tutor in the Department for Continuing Education at Oxford. He is responsible for collaborative academic programmes at the Foundation, working with university partners including the University of Oxford, and others. Previously, he worked to establish INTBAU (International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism) from 2000-2010.

Matthew has taught and published widely, editing the book The Venice Charter Revisited in 2011, and is co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Urbanism, published by Routledge. He has led courses and summer programmes for INTBAU and other institutions and universities, latterly with the Global Centre on Healthcare & Urbanisation at Kellogg College. He is a registered architect in Australia, holds a Ph.D. in Architectural History from the University of Wales, and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Adelaide.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Chartered Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. In the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours he was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order.

Matthew maintained a practice in architecture and urban design in Australia and Europe after registering as an architect in Australia in 1983. He has served on committees in local government, and in a range of community bodies in Australia, and regularly leads rides for Islington Cycling Club in London.