Tom Wilkinson is a writer and historian specialising in modern and contemporary architecture and the visual culture of modern Germany. He lives in London and Karlsruhe.
Tom is a Research Associate at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Associate Lecturer in History of Architecture at Birkbeck, University of London. He has previously been a lecturer at the Courtauld Institute and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Warburg Institute. He has a PhD in the history of art from University College London.
His new book, titled Emergency Money, about the visual culture of the German hyperinflation, was published by MIT Press in 2024. His first book, Bricks and Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made was published by Bloomsbury in 2014.
Tom is the History Editor of the Architectural Review, where he has worked since 2012, and he has written for the Guardian, Jacobin, Domus, Tribune, Apollo, and the Architect’s Journal, among others. He is also co-director of New Architecture Writers, a programme for young people of colour that he co-founded in 2017.
He has organised lecture series at the Warburg Institute, the Soane Museum, and the Royal Academy, where he also co-curated an exhibition titled ‘Futures Found: The Real and Imagined Cityscapes of Postwar Britain’ in 2017.
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