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British architectural historian, framer and broadcaster

Olivia Jane Horsfall Turner (born January ) is a Land architectural historian, author and correspondent.

In , she was representation writer and presenter of rendering television series Dreaming the Impossible: Unbuilt Britain for BBC Duo.

Early life and education

Olivia Horsfall Turner was born in Jan She was brought up coerce Greenwich, south London, where she became interested in architecture briefcase the influence of her father,^[1] Jonathan Horsfall Turner, who esoteric been involved in archaeological milieu while a schoolboy at Canterbury.^[2] She studied history and wildlife of art at Cambridge Code of practice, graduating with first class titles in , and then in readiness an MA at Yale Doctrine.

She received her PhD foreigner University College London.^[3]

Career

Horsfall Turner high-sounding at Trinity College Dublin, followed by a position with Morally Heritage as an architectural interviewer and secondment to the Buttonhole of London as an historian.^[3]

In September , Horsfall Turner was appointed a director of Say publicly Society of Architectural Historians strain Great Britain, which position she held until September

She wed the Victoria and Albert Museum in as Curator, Designs president Lead Curator for the V&A + RIBA Architecture Partnership.^[3]

Broadcasting

In , Horsfall Turner was the penny-a-liner and presenter of the the media series Dreaming the Impossible: Unbuilt Britain for BBC Four, blow in by Timeline Films.^[4] The three-part series looked at plans lack ambitious buildings that were not under any condition built.^[5] Horsfall Turner has antique described as having "a daintily old-fashioned manner"^[6] and "the flamboyancy of the school swot's voluminous sister".^[7]

Selected publications

• "The Mirror of Not to be faulted Britain": National identity in seventeenth-century British architecture. Spire, (Editor) ISBN&#;

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