Ellie Brown is an AHRC-funded doctoral student in History of Art at the University of Warwick, working on an architectural history of shopping centres constructed in Britain between 1968–82. The thesis examines how the design of shopping centres was the process of negotiation between historic built environments and modern mall trends coming out of North America and Europe. The research also draws upon histories of the architectural press, the department store, interior design, and sculpture to interrogate the shopping centre as a new space in the wider modernist landscape of the twentieth century.
Teaching
- BA2 Histories: The Modern Interior (Autumn Semester)
Research Interests
- Architectures of consumption
- Twentieth-century architectural history
- Twentieth-century sculpture and public art
- Architecture and photography
- Interior design histories
Education
- PhD History of Art, University of Warwick (2021–present), funded by Midlands4Cities and supervised by Dr Otto Saumarez Smith
- MA History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art (2018–19), “Experiencing Modernism: Utopia, Politics, and Times of Turmoil” with Dr Robin Schuldenfrei
- BA History of Art, University of Leeds (2013–16)