Other Writing

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES

THE TASMAN WORLD, eds. Andrew Leach and G. A. Bremner, special issue of Fabrications (vol. 29:3, 2019).

BUILDING THE SCOTTISH DIASPORA, eds. G. A. Bremner, Harriet Edquist, and Stuart King, special issue of ABE Journal (nos. 14-15, 2019).

ECCLESIOLOGY OUTSIDE THE BRITISH ISLES 1830-1910, ed. G. A. Bremner, special volume of Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design (vol. 4, 2012)

BOOK CHAPTERS

‘An Aryan Descent: Race, Religion, and Universal Civilisation in E. A. Freeman’s A History of Architecture (1849)’, in M. Bressani, P. Brouwer, and C. Armstrong (eds.). World Histories of Architecture: The Emergence of a New Genre in the Nineteenth Century (MIT Press, 2024), pp. 277-93.

‘Foreign Mud, Home Comforts: Taipans, Opium, and the Remitted Wealth of Jardine, Matheson & Co. in Scotland’, in G. A. Bremner and Daniel Maudlin (eds) Inner Empire: Architecture and Imperialism in the British Isles, 1550-1950 (Manchester University Press, 2024), pp. 193-217.

(with Daniel Maudlin) ‘Introduction: The Architectural Historiography of ‘Inner Empire’, in G. A. Bremner and Daniel Maudlin (eds) Inner Empire: Architecture and Imperialism in the British Isles, 1550-1950 (Manchester University Press, 2024), pp. 1-28.

‘“Popes and Caesars”: St Paul, Protestant Bible Culture, and the Building of the American Episcopal Church in Rome’, in R. Jackson and S. Goldhill (eds.), Shock of the Old: Victorian Engagements with the Biblical and Classical Pasts (Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 184-208.

‘Royalty and Rabbits: Prince Alfred’s Visits to Barwon Park, 1867-70’, in U. de Jong and J. Healy (eds), Barwon Park: Place and People (National Trust of Victoria, 2023), pp. 59-63.

‘Propagating Power: Gender, Language, and Empire in the Edwardian Baroque Revival (1885-1920)', in M. Faietti and G. Wolf (eds), Motion: Transformation, 35th Congress of the International Committee of the History of Arts, Florence, 1-6 September 2019 (2021), pp. 117-22.

'The Gothic Revival Beyond Europe', in J. Parker and C. Wagner (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism (Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 463-87.

‘St Pancras Station’, Grove Art Online (Oxford University Press, 2020).

'Sermons in Stone: Architecture and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts within the Diocese of Gibraltar, c.1842-1882', in S. Maghenzani and S. Villani (eds), British Protestant Missions and the Conversion of Europe, 1600-1900 (Routledge, 2020), pp. 235-61.

‘Material, Movement and Memory: Some Thoughts on Architecture and Experience in the Age of Mechanisation' in E. Gillin and H. Joyce (eds), Experiencing Architecture in the Nineteenth Century: Buildings and Society in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2019), pp. 175-91

‘“In bright tints … nature’s own formation”: the uses and meaning of marble in Victorian building culture’, in N. J. Napoli and W. Tronzo (eds), Radical Marble: Architectural Innovation from Antiquity to the Present (Routledge, 2018), pp. 72-92

‘Gothic in Extremis: Missions, Mediation, and the Case of the Patteson Memorial Chapel in the South Pacific’, in T. Brittain-Catlin, J. De Maeyer, and M. Bressani (eds), Gothic Revival Worldwide: A.W.N. Pugin’s Global Influence (Leuven University Press, 2017), pp. 143-55

‘Architecture, Urbanism, and British Imperial Studies’, in G. A. Bremner (ed.), Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 1-18

‘Stones of Empire: Monuments, Memorials, and Manifest Authority’ in G. A. Bremner (ed.), Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 86-124

‘The Metropolis: Imperial Buildings and Landscapes in Britain’ in G. A. Bremner (ed.), Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 125-58

‘Propagating Ideas and Institutions: Religious and Educational Architecture’ (with Louis P. Nelson) in G. A. Bremner (ed.), Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 159-97

‘1066 and All That: E. A. Freeman and the Importance of Being Memorable’ (with J. Conlin), in G. A. Bremner and J. Conlin (eds.), Making History: Edward Augustus Freeman and Victorian Cultural Politics (British Academy/Oxford UP, 2015), pp. 3-28

‘E. A. Freeman and G. G. Scott: An Episode in the Influence of Ideas’, in G. A. Bremner and J. Conlin (eds.), Making History: Edward Augustus Freeman and Victorian Cultural Politics (British Academy/Oxford UP, 2015), pp. 177-96

‘Scott and the Wider World: the Colonial Cathedrals 1846-74’ in P. Barnwell, G. Tyack, and W. Whyte (eds.), Sir George Gilbert Scott 1811-1878 (Rewley House Studies in the Historic Environment, Oxford, 2014), pp. 70-90

‘Pro Fide et Patria: Anglicanism and Ecclesiastical Architecture in Central and Southern Africa, 1848-1903’ in F. Demissie (ed.), Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories (Ashgate, 2012), pp. 239-76

‘Fabricating Justice: Conflict and Contradiction in the Making of the Hong Kong Supreme Court, 1898-1912’ in L. Victoir and V. Zatsepin (eds.), From Harbin to Hanoi: Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840-1940 (Hong Kong UP, 2012), pp. 156-80

‘Supreme and High Court Architecture in the Common-Law Tradition: An
International Perspective’ in C. Miele (ed.), The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom: History Art Architecture (Merrell: London, 2010), pp. 174-97

SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLES

‘Gold Standard Exploits: Bank Building in Colonial Johannesburg’, ABE Journal (no. 24, 2024)

‘Colonial careerists in Central Africa, 1888-1913: a survey of monuments in St Paul’s Cathedral’, The Sculpture Journal, vol. 33:2 (2024), pp. 265-74.

‘Sir Herbert Baker’, in Oxford Bibliographies Online (Architecture, Planning, and Preservation), doi: 10.1093/obo/9780190922467-0094

‘Britain and the British World Context: Slavery, Race, and Empire’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, special forum on 'Constructing Race and Architecture 1400-1800', vol. 80:3 (2021), pp. 260-2

‘Buildings and Energy: Architectural History in the Climate Emergency’ [with Barnabas Calder], Journal of Architecture, vol. 26:2 (2021), pp. 79-115

‘A Tale of Two Churches: “Protestant” Architecture and the Politics of Religion in Late Nineteenth-Century Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome, vol. 88 (2020), pp. 259-96

'Colonial Themes in Stained Glass, Home and Abroad: A Visual Survey', 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, Issue 30 (2020), doi.org/10.16995/ntn.2900

‘Tides That Bind: Waterborne Trade and the Infrastructure Networks of Jardine, Matheson & Co.’, Perspecta, 52 (‘Ensemble’, ed. C. Algie and A. Pozniak) (2019), pp. 30-46

‘Editorial’ (with Harriet Edquist and Stuart King), ‘Building the Scottish Diaspora’, eds. G. A. Bremner, Harriet Edquist, and Stuart King, special issue of ABE Journal (nos. 14-15, 2019)

‘The expansion of England? Scotland, architectural history, and the wider British world’, Journal of Art Historiography, no. 18 (June 2018)

‘Does ABE Journal need a rethink? “Early modern” and “modern” in the study of imperial/colonial architecture’, ABE Journal, no. 12 (2017)

‘William Butterfield in the Wider World’, in P. Howell and A. Saint (eds.), Butterfield Revisited, themed issue of Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design, vol. 6 (2017), pp. 61-81

‘Narthex Reclaimed: Reinventing Disciplinary Space in the Anglican Mission Field, 1847–1903’, Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 51:1 (2016), pp. 1-17

‘Littlemore Church’, Victorian Review, vol. 39:1 (2013), pp. 18-21

‘Intersecting Interests: Developments in Networks and Flows of Information and Expertise in Architectural History’ (with M. Volait and J. Lagae), Fabrications, 26:2 (2016), pp. 227-45

‘Colonial Architecture and its Global Contexts’, Architecture Australia (July/August 2015), pp. 53-56

‘Corporations, Corporate Identity, and Imperial Architectures?’ (Editorial), in ‘Corporate Patronage’, eds. G. A. Bremner and Diego Caltana, special issue of ABE Journal (no. 2, 2012)

‘The Corporatisation of Global Anglicanism: Architecture, Organisation, and Faith-based Patronage in the Nineteenth-Century British Colonial World’, in ‘Corporate Patronage’, eds. G. A. Bremner and Diego Caltana, special issue of ABE Journal (no. 2, 2012)

‘Introduction: Victorian Architecture – an Expanded Field’ in G. A. Bremner (ed.), Ecclesiology Abroad: The British Empire and Beyond, themed issue of Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design, vol. 4 (2012), pp. 7-13

‘History as Form: Architecture and Liberal Anglican Thought in the Writing of E. A. Freeman,’ Modern Intellectual History [with Jonathan Conlin], vol. 8:2 (2011), pp. 299-326

‘The Architecture of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa: Developing a Vernacular Tradition in the Anglican Mission Field, 1861-1908,’ Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 68:4 (2009), pp. 514-39

‘The “Great Obelisk” and Other Schemes: the Origins and Limits of Nationalist Sentiment in the Making of the Albert Memorial 1861-63,’ Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 31:3 (2009), pp. 225-49

‘Out of Africa: G. F. Bodley, William White, and the Anglican Mission Church of St. Philip, Grahamstown, 1857-67,’ Architectural History, vol. 51 (2008), pp. 185-210

‘Between Civilisation and Barbarity: Conflicting Perceptions of the Non-European World in William Theed’s Africa, 1864-69,’ Sculpture Journal, vol. 15 (2007), pp. 94-102

‘Nation and Empire in the Government Architecture of Mid-Victorian London: the Foreign and India Office Reconsidered,’ Historical Journal, vol. 48:3 (2005), pp. 703-42

‘“Imperial Peace Memorial”: the Second Anglo-Boer War and the Origins of Admiralty Arch, 1900-1905,’ British Art Journal, vol. 5:3 (2004), pp. 62-6

‘“Imperial Monumental Halls and Tower”: Westminster Abbey and the Commemoration of Empire, 1854-1904,’ Architectural History, vol. 47 (2004), pp. 251-82

‘“Some Imperial Institute:” Architecture, Symbolism, and the Ideal of Empire in Late Victorian Britain, 1887-93,’ Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 62:1 (2003), pp. 50-73

‘Spaces of Exclusion: the significance of cultural identity in the formation of European residential districts in British Hong Kong, 1877-1904’ [with David P. Y. Lung], Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 21:2 (2003), pp. 223-52

‘Re-activating the Docile Body: a critical (re)view of Diller and Scofidio’s Slow House’, Architectural Theory Review, vol. 5:1 (2000), pp. 104-22

‘Montage, Avant-Gardism, and Architecture: the technique of “superimposition” in Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de la Villette,’ in Terra: Student Architectures, RAIA/SONA (Melbourne, 1999), pp. 114-19

‘Advertising Architecture: some comments concerning the function of image in the domestic housing market’ [with James McGregor], Architect Victoria, Sept., 1999, pp. 21-2

BOOK AND EXHIBITION REVIEWS

Edwin Rickards (Timothy Brittain-Catlin), in The Burlington Magazine (Nov. 2024), pp. 1197-9.

The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe: Space, Place, and the Construction of an Imperial Environment, 1860–1960 (Miel Groten), in Fabrications, vol. 33:3 (2024), pp. 683-6.

The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664–1962 (Gauvin Bailey), in The Burlington Magazine (June 2023), pp. 667-8.

The Persian Revival: The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture (Talinn Grigor), in Architectural History, vol. 65 (2022).

The British Empire Through Buildings (J. M. MacKenzie), in ABE Journal (Summer 2022).

Germany and the Ottoman Railways: Art, Empire, and Infrastructure (Peter H. Christensen, 2017), in Architectural History, vol. 63 (2020), pp. 332-5.

British Houses in Late Mughal Delhi (Sylvia Shorto, 2018), in Architectural History, vol. 62 (2019), pp. 281-3.

The Pre-Raphaelites and Science (John Holmes, 2018), in The Burlington Magazine (May 2019), pp. 443-4.

Country Houses and the British Empire, 1700-1930 (Stephanie Barczewski, 2014), in Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, vol. 63 (2019), pp. 134-5.

The Victorian Palace of Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Building of the Houses of Parliament (Edward J. Gillin, 2017), in Physics in Perspective, vol. 20 (2018), pp. 370-73.

Capital Designs: Australia House and Visions of an Imperial London (Eileen Chanin, 2018), in The Burlington Magazine (March, 2019), pp. 263-4.

Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere (Prita Meier, 2016), in Architectural History, vol. 61 (2018), pp. 292-4.

Unlocking the Church: The Lost Secrets of Victorian Sacred Space (William Whyte, 2017), in The Victorian (July 2018), p. 25.

City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning (Michael J. Lewis), in Journal of Architecture, vol. 22:8 (2017), pp. 1366-68.

Building the British Atlantic World: Spaces, Places, and Material Culture, 1600-1850 (eds. D. Maudlin and B. L. Herman, 2016), in Britain and the World, vol. 10:1 (2017), pp. 115-18.

George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America (M. Hall, 2014), in The Architectural Historian, 2 (Dec. 2015/Jan. 2016), pp. 25-27.

Iron, Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain: Myth and Modernity, Excess and Enchantment (P. Dobraszczyk, 2014), in Victorian Studies, vol. 58:3 (2016), pp. 557-60.

The Age of Empire: Britain's Imperial Buildings, 1880-1930 (C. Aslet, 2015), in Cercles (July 2016).

Buildings of Empire (A. Jackson, 2013), in Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 47 (2015), pp. 109-10.

Empire Builders: 1750-1950 (exhibition at the V&A Museum, London), in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 73:4 (2014), pp. 582-83.

Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture (T. Brittain-Catlin, 2014), in The Victorian, no. 47 (Nov. 2014), pp. 29-31.

Slavery and the British Country House (ed. M. Dresser and A. Hann, 2013), in Newsletter of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, no. 113 (Autumn, 2014), pp. 9-11.

Robert Willis and the Foundation of Architectural History (A. Buchanan, 2013), in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 73:3 (2014), pp. 424-26.

Room for Diplomacy: Britain's Diplomatic Buildings Overseas 1800-2000 (M. Bertram, 2011), Newsletter of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, no. 110 (Autumn, 2013), p. 19.

The Battle of the Styles: Society, Culture and the Design of a New Foreign Office, 1855–61 (B. Porter, 2012), in Victorian Studies, vol. 55.2 (2013), pp. 376-78.

William White: Pioneer Victorian Architect (G. Hunter, 2010), in True Principles, vol. 4:4 (2013-14), pp. 355-58.

Whare Karakia: Māori Church Building, Decoration and Ritual in Aotearoa New Zealand 1834-1863 (R. Sundt, 2010), in Fabrications, vol. 20:1 (2011), pp. 129-31.

Essays in Scots and English Architectural History: A Festschrift in Honour of John Frew (ed. D. Jones and S. McKinstry, 2009), in True Principles, vol. 4:2 (2010-11), pp. 210-11.

An Excellent Recruit: Frederick Thatcher - Architect, Priest, and Private Secretary in Early New Zealand (M. H. Alington, 2007), in Ecclesiology Today, no. 40 (2008), pp. 111-12.

The Great Pyramid: Ancient Egypt Revisited (J. Romer, 2008), in Newsletter of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, no. 93 (2008), pp. 16-17.