Jonathan Hill (architect)

Jonathan Hill (17 June 1958 – 1 November 2023) was an English architect, architectural historian, editor and author.

Biography
Jonathan Hill received a Diploma from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1983, a Master of Science degree from University College London in 1990, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of London in 2000.

Hill joined University College London, part of the University of London, England, in 1989. He was Professor of Architecture and Visual Theory in the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL. He led the Architecture MArch PG12 studio and was director of the Architectural Design MPhil/PhD programme, the first such programme to be established in the United Kingdom.

Hill died from cancer on 1 November 2023, at the age of 65.

Work
Jonathan Hill published a number of books including:


 * The Illegal Architect (1998)
 * Actions of Architecture: Architects and Creative Users (Taylor & Francis, 2003, ISBN 978-1134437054)
 * Drawing Research (2006)
 * Immaterial Architecture (Routledge, 2006, ISBN 978-0415363242)
 * Weather Architecture (Routledge, 2012, ISBN 978-0415668613)
 * A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction (Routledge, 2015, ISBN 978-1138852297)
 * The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future (Routledge, 2019 ISBN 978-0429429644)

Hill edited the following books:


 * Architecture: The Subject is Matter (Routledge, 2001, ISBN 978-0415235457
 * Occupying Architecture: Between the Architect and the User (Routledge, 2006, ISBN 978-0203983829)

Hill was also series co-editor of the Design Research in Architecture book series published by Ashgate.