Clive Aslet Explained
Clive Aslet (born 15 February 1955) is a writer on British architecture and life, a Visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge and publisher of Triglyph Books. For 13 years he was the Editor of Country Life magazine.
Early life
Aslet was educated at King's College School in Wimbledon and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he earned a degree in the history of architecture.[1]
Career
After graduating, he joined Country Life magazine in 1977 as architectural writer, becoming architectural editor in 1984, deputy editor in 1989, and editor-in-chief in 1993. In 1997 he was named British Society of Magazine Editors' Editor of the Year. After 13 years as editor-in-chief, from 13 March 2006, Aslet left and took on a newly created role of editor-at-large, which allowed him to write more books as well as articles for newspapers such as The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and The Sunday Times. He has regularly broadcast on radio and television current affairs programmes including Newsnight.[2]
Aslet has published over 30 books, including, in 2012, his first novel, The Birdcage.
In 2019, he established the publishing imprint Triglyph Books with the photographer Dylan Thomas.
Two years later he was one of the small team that founded the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture at Downing College, Cambridge.
Books
Aslet is the author of:
- Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain’s Greatest Architect? (Triglyph Books, 2024)
- Living Tradition: The Architecture and Urbanism of Hugh Petter (Triglyph Books, 2023)
- Old Parkland: Community, Architecture and the American Ideal (Triglyph Books) 2022
- Collecting Nature: The History of the Herbarium and Natural Specimens (with Svante Helmbaek Tirén; Bokförlaget Stolpe AB, 2022)
- The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People (Yale University Press, 2021)
- Mawson: The Art and Craft of Garden Making (Stolpe Publishing, 2021))
- The Academy: Celebrating the work of John Simpson at the Walsh Family Hall, University of Notre Dame, Indiana (Triglyph Books, 2021)
- Building Beautiful: Classical Houses (with John Simpson; Rizzoli, 2021)
- The Real Crown Jewels of England: 100 Places That Make Us Great (Little Brown, 2020)
- Old Homes, New Life: The Resurgence of the British Country House (with Dylan Thomas; Triglyph Books, 2020)
- The Birdcage (Cumulus, 2014), (Sandstone Press, 2016)
- The Age of Empire: Britain's Imperial Architecture (Aurum, 2015)
- Strands of History: Northbank Revealed (Wild Research, 2014)
- An Exuberant Catalogue of Dreams: The Americans who Revived the Country House in Britain (Aurum, 2013)
- The Edwardian Country House: A Social and Architectural History (Frances Lincoln, 2012)
- War Memorial: The Story of One Village's Sacrifice from 1914 to 2003 (Penguin, 2012)
- The Arts and Crafts Country House: From the Archives of Country Life (Aurum, 2011)
- Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside (Bloomsbury, 2010)
- The English House (Bloomsbury, 2008)
- The Landmarks of Britain: The Five Hundred Places that Made Our History (Hodder and Stoughton, 2006)
- A Horse in the Country: A Diary of a Year in the Heart of England (Fourth Estate, 2001)
- The Story of Greenwich (Fourth Estate, 1999)
- Inside the House of Lords (with Derry Moore; HarperCollins, 1998)
- Anyone for England? (Little Brown, 1997)
- Countryblast: Your Countryside Needs You Now (John Murray Publishers Ltd., 1991)
- The American Country House (Yale University Press, 1990)
- Quinlan Terry: The Revival of Architecture (Viking, 1986)
- The National Trust Book of the English house (Viking, 1985)
- A History of Elveden (Christie, Manson & Woods Ltds., Sales Catalogue, 1984)
- Enchanted Forest: The Story of Stansted in Sussex (with the 10th Earl of Bessborough; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984)
- The Last Country Houses (Yale University Press, 1982)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Clive Aslet takes on editor-at-large role on Country Life. 21 May 2007. 2 February 2006. journalism.co.uk. Clare Fisher.
- Web site: Mark Hedges appointed editor-in-chief of Country Life as Clive Aslet takes on editor-at-large role. 14 May 2009. 30 January 2006. ipcmedia.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110724105130/http://www.ipcmedia.com/press/article.php?id=73773. 24 July 2011. dmy-all.
