Alistair Fair

Biography

​Dr Alistair Fair is a historian who specialises in twentieth-century architecture in Britain, drawing on original archive sources to place architecture in context and to understand how buildings were conceived, constructed, understood, and used.

Research Interest

Alistair's research examines the architectural history of post-1945 Scotland and Britain. For more than a decade he has been researching the design of theatre buildings in this period. He is currently completing a substantial book on the new theatres built across Britain between the 1950s and the 1980s, to be published by Oxford University Press, and is beginning work on a shorter study of contemporary theatre design (the latter contracted to Lund Humphries). This work has been funded by the AHRC (2004-7), the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (2014), and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2014-15).