Malcolm Quantrill

Who was Malcolm Quantrill?

Malcolm Quantrill was a British architect, academic and architecture theorist. His best known books are The Environmental Memory - Man and Architecture in the Landscape of Ideas and Finnish Architecture and the Modernist Tradition. He was a specialist in the history of the modern architecture of Finland. He was the first person to write critical monographs in any language on three individual Finnish modernist architects, Alvar Aalto - Alvar Aalto: A Critical Study - Reima Pietilä - Reima Pietilä: Architecture, Context, Modernism - and Juha Leiviskä - Juha Leiviska and the Continuity of Finnish Modern Architecture. Already during his lifetime, he acquired a reputation for thorough and innovative scholarship in architecture, bringing a questioning attitude to well-known figures and canonical architectural history.