Iain Borden

Iain Borden (born in Oxford in 1962) is an English architectural historian and urban commentator. He is currently Vice-Dean for Communications at the The Bartlett, University College London (UCL), and Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture.

He graduated from University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1985, and went on to complete masters degrees at UCL and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Phd at UCL. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

His wide-ranging historical and theoretical interests have led to publications on, among other subjects, critical theory and architectural historical methodology, the history of skateboarding as an urban practice, boundaries and surveillance, Henri Lefebvre and Georg Simmel, Renaissance urban space, architectural modernism and modernity, contemporary architectural practice and theory, film and architecture, gender and architecture, body spaces and the experience of space. He has recently undertaken a history of automobile driving as a spatial experience of cities, landscapes and architecture, and particularly as represented in film.