Dr David Lund

Dr David Lund is a historian of models and modelmaking and a Senior Lecturer teaching on both the BA (Hons) Modelmaking and BA (Hons) Design degree programmes at AUB, with responsibility for the development and implementation of the theory, history, and critical thinking elements of the curriculum across all three levels. A trained architectural modelmaker turned historian of the discipline, David's research specialisms include the history of architectural modelmaking, the relationship between making, design and material culture, and the nature of models as epistemological tools.

David's work studying the history of architectural modelmaking is currently centred on the cataloguing and interpretation of the Thorp Modelmaking Archive, a unique collection of over 30,000 photographs and documents charting the history of the oldest architectural modelmaking company in the world, which he secured for preservation by AUB in 2019. As one of the world's leading authorities on the history of modelmaking, he is the author of Model Britain: The Architectural Models of Twentieth Century Dreams (Routledge 2024), and A History of Architectural Modelmaking in Britain: The Unseen Masters of Scale and Vision (Routledge 2022), and has also been published in Architectural Theory Review, The Modernist, and The Twentieth Century Society Magazine. He is currently working on two further books and regularly consults on the history and preservation of historic architectural models.

David is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the Association of Professional Modelmakers, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.