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Andrew qualified and practised as an architect before taking up research, starting with a PhD on Richard Payne Knight and the theory of the picturesque. He has worked with archaeologists surveying a Byzantine settlement in Greece, and more recently on architectural theory.

Andrew is author and editor of several books. Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2002) has been translated into 23 languages including Chinese, Greek anf Hungarian. It is also available in an American edition with many more illustrations Brief Insights: Architecture (Sterling,2010). Key Buildings from Prehistory to the Present (Laurence King 2012) is avilable in English and Portuguese. Deleuze and Guattari for Architects (Routledge 2007) is available in English, Korean and Turkish, and will soon be available in French.

Andrew Ballantyne BA, MA, PhD, Dip Arch, RIBA

I am interested in the way we identify with and find form in complex things, including our selves and our surroundings. Our decisions about things always have an unconscious aspect to them, and I am interested in taking note of that, as the unconscious factors are often more important in our decision-making processes than are the carefully reasoned arguments that we use. If our arguments lead us to conclusions that we find unacceptable then we humans tend to discard them and choose others. 

Ruskin

My most recent book is on John Ruskin, who was a brilliant Victorian who made some very odd life-choices. He was the most revered critic of his age, and his insights into architecture were transformative. He saw good building as a process of good working rather than as a realization of fixed good forms. I think that this understanding came to him first through his study of geology studies. His intuitions about the formation of things as the result of slow but powerful forces seems to begin with geology, but it is there in his studies of buildings (especially The Stones of Venice) and in his attitudes to people and their education. He tried to do good things, and set up many benevolent enterprises. A concern for ethics runs through all his work. The Seven Lamps of Architecture was his way of making an ethical analysis of architecture, showing how different values pull us in different directions.

High-speed histories

I am also working on a general history of architecture, taking a series of narratives across the whole of human cultural development. That takes up some of the themes that are "between the lines" in the book  Key Buildings from Prehistory to the Present and tries to see some common impulses being addressed across wide spreads of time and culture. We share a great deal of DNA with animals, and some of our impulses are deeply embodied.

Deleuze and Guattari locate the origins of architecture in the territorial aspects of birdsong. If we look at things on the scale of geological time and evolutionary time, then human buildings look like a phenomenon of the very recent past, dating from the last few thousand years.

Link to an interview about architecture and philosophy:

https://soundcloud.com/user9588568/professor-andrew-ballantyne?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook 

Link to an interview about Thoreau's Walden:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/weekendarts/ab/4387974

Link to Chicago University Press information about the Ruskin book:

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/J/bo20170832.html

Presentation in Rotterdam, on Ruskin, Brutalism and Beatrix Potter:

http://jaap-bakema-study-centre.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/activities/postbrutalism

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• Ballantyne A, Smith CL. . In: Ballantyne, A, Smith, CL, ed. Architecture in the Space of Flows. Oxon., UK: Routledge, 2012, pp.1-39.
• Ballantyne A. . London: Laurence King, 2012.
• Ballantyne A. . Nordic Journal of Architecture 2012, 2(3), 34-39.
• Ballantyne A. . Architectural Theory Review 2012, 17(1), 105-116.
• Ballantyne A, Smith CL, ed. . London: Routledge, 2011.
• Ballantyne A. . Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 2011, 69(1), 43-49.
• Ballantyne A, Law A. . In: String, TC, Bull, M, ed. Tudorism: Historical imagination and the Appropriation of the Sixteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy, 2011, pp.155-181.
• Ballantyne A, Law A. . Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 2011, 32(3), 301-313.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Handa, R., Potter, J, ed. Conjuring the Real: The Role of Architecture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2011, pp.153-190.
• Ballantyne A, Law A. . London: Reaktion Books, 2011.
• Smith CL, Ballantyne A. . arq: Architectural Research Quarterly 2010, 14(1), 21-27.
• Ballantyne A, Ince G. . In: Ballantyne, A, ed. Rural and Urban: Architecture Between Two Cultures. London, UK: Routledge, 2010, pp.1-27.
• Ballantyne A, ed. . London, UK: Routledge, 2010.
• Ballantyne A, Law A. . In: Guillery, P, ed. Built From Below: British Architecture and the Vernacular. Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2011, pp.123-144.
• Ballantyne A. . Architectural History 2009, (98), 1-2.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Dana Arnold, Joanna Sofaer, ed. Biographies and Space: Placing the Subject in Art and Architecture. London and New York: Routledge, 2008, pp.17-34.
• Ballantyne A. . London: Routledge, 2007.
• Ballantyne A, Ince G. . Oxford: Archaeopress, 2007.
• Ballantyne A. . Journal of Architectural Education 2006, 59(3), 88-89.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Sawyer, J, ed. The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture. New York: Blackwell, 2006, pp.323-337.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Arnold, D; Ergut, EA; Özkaya, BT, ed. Rethinking Architectural Historiography. London: Routledge, 2006, pp.36-49.
• Ballantyne A. . Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 2006, 65(2), 288-290.
• Ballantyne A. . London and New York: Continuum, 2005.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Ray, N, ed. Architecture and its Ethical Dilemmas. London: Taylor and Francis, 2005, pp.115-122.
• Ballantyne A, Arnold D. . London: Routledge, 2004.
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• Ballantyne A. . In: Arciszewska, B., McKellar, E, ed. Articulating British Classicism: New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Architecture. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, pp.163-185.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Arnold, D., Ballantyne, A, ed. Architecture as Experience: Radical Change in Spatial Practice. London: Routledge, 2004, pp.11-35.
• Ballantyne A. . TLS: The Times Literary Supplement 2003, (5212), 30-30.
• Ballantyne A, ed. . Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003.
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• Ballantyne A. . TLS: The Times Literary Supplement 2003, (5219), 19-19.
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• Ballantyne A. . In: Menin, S, ed. Constructing Place: Mind and the Matter of Place-making. London: Routledge, 2003, pp.166-176.
• Ballantyne A. . TLS: The Times Literary Supplement 2003, (5225), 30-30.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Arnold, D, ed. Cultural Identities and the Aesthetics of Britishness. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2003, pp.87-98.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Lorand, R, ed. Television: Aesthetic Reflections. New York: Peter Lang, 2002, pp.127-138.
• Ballantyne A. . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Ballantyne A. . TLS: The Times Literary Supplement 2002, (5166), 4-5.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Arnold, D, ed. Architecture, Antiquity and Aesthetics, 1700-1840. Blackwell and the Association of Art Historians, 2002.
• Ballantyne A. . Art History 2002, 25(4), 550-565.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Ballantyne, A, ed. What is Architecture?. London, UK: Routledge, 2002, pp.7-52.
• Ballantye A. . In: Wilde, C., Smith, P, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Art Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, pp.116-1224.
• Ballantyne A, ed. . London, UK: Routledge, 2002.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Woodfield, R, ed. Alois Reigl. New York: G+B Arts International, 2001, pp.83-106.
• Ballantyne AN. . Architectural Research Quarterly 2000, 4(4), 349-356.
• Ballantyne A. On Foster ... Foster on. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 2000, (5092), 8-8.
• Ballantyne A. . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Arnold, D., Peters Corbett, D, ed. A Companion to British Art: 1600 to the Present. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2013, pp.38-59.
• Ballantyne AN. Reason and Unreason in the Street. Transgressions: a Journal of Urban Exploration, Salamander, London, 4 49-56 1998.
• Ballantyne A. . London, UK: Reaktion, 2015.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Tigran Haas and Krister Olsson, ed. Emergent Urbanism: Urban Planning and Design in Times of Structural and Systemic Change. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014, pp.29-35.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Vanfasse, N; Huguet, C, ed. Charles Dickens: Modernism, Modernity. Paris, France: Editions du Sagittaire, 2014, pp.211-230.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Bøe, S; Faber, HC; Strandhagen, B, ed. Raw: Architectural Engagements with Nature. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014, pp.23-34.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Masheck, J, ed. Mostly Modern: Essays in Art and Architecture. Easthampton, MA: Hudson Hills Press, 2015.
• Ballantyne A, Koller S. . Journal of the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture 2014, 1(1), 118-126.
• Ballantyne A. . In: David Ellison and Andrew Leach, ed. On Discomfort: Moments in a Modern History of Architectural Culture. Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2017, pp.24-35.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Hendrix, J ; Holm, L, ed. Architecture and the Unconscious. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016, pp.223-232.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Catherine M. Soussloff, ed. Foucault on the Arts and Letters: Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century. London, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016, pp.181-197.
• Ballantyne A. . Architecture Research Quarterly 2016, 20(1), 39-44.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Wolfram Bergande, ed. Kreative Zerstörung. Berlin, Germany: Turia + Kant, 2017, pp.315-333.
• Ballantyne A. . In: Constantin V. Boundas and Vana Tentokali, ed. Architectural and Urban Reflections After Deleuze and Guattari. Lanham, MD, USA: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017.