Georgian Terraced Housing

Speculative Housing London 1774-1841

This research project examines the emergence of speculative housing in late eighteenth-century London. Through archival research and comparative drawing analysis, it shows how legislation and construction methods standardised Georgian terraced housing. A drawn genealogy of architectural elements—from large townhouses to optimised workers’ housing—reveals how the standardisation of materials and labour reconfigured the social and spatial dynamics of domestic life.

Research project Taught MPhil Projective Cities (2018) Architectural Association London. Presented at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University China symposium ‘Design Research in Architecture’ (2018).