Prof. Conrad Thake is an architect, urban planner and architectural historian. He graduated with a B.E.&A (Hons.) from the University of Malta (1988) and an MA degree in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Waterloo, Canada (1991). He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Architecture, from the University of California, at Berkeley, U.S.A (1996). He co-authored with Quentin Hughes, the two volumes "Malta – The Baroque Island", (2003) and "Malta – War & Peace, an Architectural Chronicle 1800-2000", (2005). He has published several books including "William Scamp, A British Admiralty Architect in Malta", "The Ottoman Muslim Cemetery in Malta", "Contemporary Architecture in Malta". His book "Art Nouveau to Modernism: Architecture in Malta 1910-1950" was the recipient of the Malta National Book Prize 2022 in the ‘General Research’ category in the National Book Prize award by the Malta Book Council.
He has published in several prestigious international journals such as Spazio e Società, L’Arca, Demetra, Muqarnas, and Palladio. Thake is a Salzburg fellow and a Member of CICA - Comité International des Critiques d'Architecture / International Committee of Architectural Critics.
Prof. Thake has been a visiting lecturer at the Paul Getty Centre, Los Angeles, the University of Edinburgh, the Università degli Studi di Palermo, and the Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli.
He has also served on various governmental boards including the Foundation for Tomorrow's Schools, the Development Control Commission, the Planning Appeals Board, the Mediterranean Conference Centre and the Valletta Rehabilitation Committee.
Recipient of the H.E. President’s Award for lifelong services to architecture and spatial planning, Malta Architecture and Spatial Planning Awards (MASP) (2023)
Recipient of the Malta National Book Prize 2022 by the Malta Book Council in the ‘General Research’ category for the book, "Art Nouveau to Modernism, Architecture in Malta 1910-1950", (Malta: Kite Group). (2022)
Recipient of the ‘The Malta Historical Society Award for Scholarly Publications’ for the paper “Envisioning the Orient: The New Muslim Cemetery in Malta”, in "Muqarnas – An Annual of the Visual Culture of the Islamic World", (ed. Gülru Necipoğlu), vol.33, 221-51, Brill. (2018).
JURY SERVICE BOOK AWARDS
Member, The Malta Historical Society Publications Award (2024) Member, Spiro Kostof Book Award Committee, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), United States of America, (2024) Member, Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award Committee, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), United States of America, (2022) Member, Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award Committee, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), United States of America, (2021)
MEMBERSHIPS
Member of CICA - Comité International des Critiques d'Architecture / International Committee of Architectural Critics.
