Robert Kronenburg
Robert Kronenburg PhD RIBA is an architect and is Emeritus Roscoe Chair of Architecture at Liverpool School of Architecture, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool, UK. His research engages with innovative forms of architectural design, film and popular music. His sole author books include Architecture in Motion, Spirit of the Machine, Portable Architecture, Flexible: Architecture that Responds to Change, Live Architecture: Venues, Stages and Arenas for Popular Music, Liverpool's Musical Landscapes (with Sara Cohen), and he is co-editor of the Transportable Environments book series. His books have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese. He is a past Fulbright fellow and has been a visiting fellow at St. Johns College, Oxford University. He curated the major exhibition Portable Architecture (1998) held at the RIBA, London, and was curatorial advisor on the Vitra Design Museum’s exhibition Living in Motion (2002-06). His research has received support from the Building Centre Trust, the Graham Foundation, the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Daiwa Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust. In 2012/13 he held a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship. His latest book is This Must Be the Place: An Architectural History of Popular Music Performance Venues: an architectural history, published by Bloomsbury, New York in 2019.
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