Lessons of Greece and Rome for Contemporary Architecture

TAG Chairman, Mark Wilson Jones, speaking on his research on the Origins of the Classical Orders and challenging commonly held views on the history and application of the Orders. He also discusses how he has in turn used this research within his own practice on a project he is currently working on in the Caribbean.
Mark is an architect and architectural historian whose research can cross over into the domain of archaeology. Having begun his architectural training at the University of Cambridge and completed it at the then Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster) he was awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture at the British School at Rome. After several years combining research with architectural practice in London and Rome, he joined the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering here in 2000, where he teaches primarily architectural history and theory.