Dr Frank Salmon
- Associate Professor of the History of Art
- Director of the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture
- Fellow of St John's College
About
Frank Salmon is an Associate Professor of the History of Art, a Fellow and former President of St John's College, and the Director of the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art, in association with the Faculty of Classics. He is an architectural historian for whom a central interest has been archaeological discoveries relating to Roman and Greek architecture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the impact of those discoveries on neo-classical architecture in Britain, Europe and America. His book Building on Ruins: The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture (2000) won two prizes. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and represents the Society as a Trustee of Sir John Soane's Museum.
Research
Among a number of research projects relating to classical architecture in general, Frank Salmon has an ongoing interest in the Greek Revival in Britain, particularly in the relatively understudied period of archaeological discovery c.1790-1830 when the third, fourth and fifth volumes of The Antiquities of Athens appeared, alongside a number of other significant publications. Recent presentations relating to this interest are:
‘Everyday Temples: Greek Architecture’s Enduring Legacy’, The Ian Jenkins Memorial Lecture at the British Museum, London [27 October 2022]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weAdnVYCVQc&list=PLHcErFdjbqlyXKHov2rA0oKA2Y52N4FOJ&index=2
‘The Erechtheion: An Overlooked Paradigm of the Greek Revival?’, Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies [20 April 2021]