Prof. Conrad Thake
B.E.&A.(Hons.),M.A.,Ph.D.(Berkeley)
Associate Professor
Room 303
Old Humanities Building
University of Malta
Msida
+356 2340 3084
Biography
Dr Conrad Thake is an architect, urban planner and architectural historian. He graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Architecture, from the University of California, at Berkeley, U.S.A (1996). He has co-authored with the late Dr. Quentin Hughes, the two volumes 'Malta – The Baroque Island', (2003) and 'Malta – War & Peace, an Architectural Chronicle 1800-2000', (2005). He is has published in several prestigious international journals such as L'Arca, Demetra, Palladio, and Spazio e Società . Thake is a Salzburg fellow and a Member of CICA - Comité International des Critiques d'Architecture / International Committee of Architectural Critics. He has served in the past as a member of the Development Control Commission, the Planning Appeals Board, the Mediterranean Conference Centre management board and the Valletta Rehabilitation Committee.
Research Interests
Italian Baroque architecure Maltese architectural history Urban regeneration of historic centres History of Cities Modern architecture Architectural theory & criticism
Publications
Lecturing Portfolio
AAH3217 - Fine Arts Synoptic Study-unit 1AAH3218 - Fine Arts Synoptic Study-Unit 2ART1017 - The Art and Architecture of Early Christianity and the Early Middle AgesART2021 - Architectural History 3: Modern and Contemporary ArchitectureART2022 - Classical Greek and Roman ArchitectureART2114 - Study TourART2140 - Italian Baroque Architecture 1600-1750ART3017 - History of Art Synoptic Study-Unit 1ART3018 - History of Art Synoptic Study-Unit 2
Other
Member of CICA - Comité International des Critiques d'Architecture / International Committee of Architectural Critics. Member of Malta Historical Society Member of the Kamra tal-Periti/Chamber of Architects(Malta)