Prof. Conrad Thake

Prof. Conrad Thake

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
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.
  • Italian Baroque architecure
  • Maltese architectural history
  • Urban regeneration of historic centres
  • History of Cities
  • Modern architecture
  • Architectural theory & criticism
  • AAH3217 - Fine Arts Synoptic Study-unit 1
  • AAH3218 - Fine Arts Synoptic Study-Unit 2
  • ART1017 - The Art and Architecture of Early Christianity and the Early Middle Ages
  • ART2021 - Architectural History 3: Modern and Contemporary Architecture
  • ART2022 - Classical Greek and Roman Architecture
  • ART2114 - Study Tour
  • ART2140 - Italian Baroque Architecture 1600-1750
  • ART3017 - History of Art Synoptic Study-Unit 1
  • ART3018 - History of Art Synoptic Study-Unit 2
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)

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