Gavin Stamp

Gavin Mark Stamp (15 March 1948 – 30 December 2017) was a British writer, television presenter and architectural historian.

Books in order of publication:

Temples of Power: Architecture of Electricity in London (1979). London: Gardners. 

Britain in the Thirties (1979). London: Architectural Design. 

(with Colin Amery) Victorian Buildings of London, 1837–1887: An Illustrated Guide (1980). London: Architectural Press. 

Amery, Colin; Richardson, Margaret; Stamp, Gavin (1981). Lutyens: The Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. Arts Council of Great Britain. 

The Great Perspectivists (1982). London: Trefoil. 

The Changing Metropolis: Earliest Photographs of London 1839–1879 (1984). London: Viking. 

(with Andre Goulancourt) The English House, 1860–1914: The Flowering of English Domestic Architecture (1986). London: Faber. 

Telephone Boxes (1989). London: Chatto & Windus. 

(with Sam McKinstry) “Greek” Thomson: Neo-Classical Architectural Theory, Buildings and Interiors (1993). Edinburgh University Press. 

Personal and Professional Recollections of George Gilbert Scott (1995). Stamford: Paul Watkins. 

(with Phil Sayer) Alexander “Greek” Thomson (1999). London: L. King. 

Edwin Lutyens: Country Houses (2001). London: Aurum. 

An Architect of Promise: George Gilbert Scott, Jr. (2002). Donington: Shaun Tyas. 

(co-editor, with Andrew Hopkins) Lutyens Abroad: The Work of Sir Edwin Lutyens outside the British Isles (2002). London: The British School at Rome. 

The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme (2006). London: Profile. 

Britain’s Lost Cities (2007). London: Aurum. 

Anti-Ugly: Excursions in English Architecture and Design [collected writings first published in Apollo magazine] (2013). London: Aurum. 

Gothic in the Steam Age (2015). London: Aurum. 

Interwar: British Architecture 1919–39 (2024). London: Profile Books.