Deborah Howard

Deborah Howard is a Fellow of St John’s College, and professor of Architectural History at Cambridge University. Her main research interests are the architecture of Venice and the Veneto, Italian Renaissance architecture and Scottish architecture. Her books include Jacopo Sansovino: Architecture and Patronage in Renaissance Venice, The Architectural History of Venice, Scottish Architecture from the Reformation to the Restoration 1560-1660 and Venice and the East: The impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 1100-1500. She was until 2000 the chairman of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, and is a board member of the Society of Architectural Historians (USA).