Dr Alborz Dianat

Architectural Historian



School of Art History & Cultural Policy

University College Dublin



Lectures & Conferences


Conference organisation 
  • Minding her Business: Women, Architecture, and Design, Dublin, 13-15 June 2024. 
Invited lectures 
  • ‘The Network around Walter Gropius in Britain,’ SAHGB-IHR Seminar, Senate House, London, 6 June 2024. 
  • ‘P. Morton Shand: The Architectural Critic Behind British Modernism,’ Isokon Gallery, London, 16 November 2023. 
  •  ‘P. Morton Shand: The Architectural Critic Between British and European Modernism,’ University College Dublin, School of Art History & Cultural Policy Research Seminar, 16 October 2023. 
Conference and seminar papers 
  • ‘Ise Gropius and the Domestication of Modernist Design in English-language Media,’ EAHN 2024, Athens, 19 June 2024. 
  • ‘The Vienna Method in Britain: Democratising Data,’ Design History Society Annual Conference, Porto, 7-9 September 2023. 
  •  ‘Reinventing Walter Gropius: English Translations of Modernism,’ Alvar Aalto Researchers' Network Seminar, Jyväskylä, Finland, 14-15 June 2023.
  • ‘British Modernism: An Example for All Nations?’ Research Forum for German Visual Culture, online, 15 March 2023. 
  •  ‘P. Morton Shand and the Translating of Modernisms,’ PhD Seminar with Geddes Fellow Professor Annmarie Adams, University of Edinburgh, 2 November 2022. 
  • ‘Philip Morton Shand and the Merging of British and European Modernities, c. 1925-1939,’ Methods Workshop with Geddes Fellow Professor Samiah Henni, University of Edinburgh, 9 March 2021. 
  • ‘The Architectural Writings of P. Morton Shand c. 1920-1940,’ ESALA Postgraduate Symposium with Geddes Fellow Professor Carla Yanni, 14 February 2020. 
  • ‘The Re-Making of Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Modernist History,’ Annual Workshop of the SAHGB, London, 17 March 2018. 
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