Edward Denison is Professor of Architecture and Global Modernities at The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), where he is also Director of the MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments. His research focuses on critical historiographies of architecture and modernity, especially outside ‘the west’. In 2016 and 2017, he won the RIBA President’s Medal for Research for his co-produced work on the UNESCO World Heritage Nomination of Asmara, the modernist capital of Eritrea, and Ultra-Modernism in Manchuria, respectively. Publications include ‘Architecture and the Landscape of Modernity in China before 1949’ (Routledge, 2017); ‘Ultra-Modernism – Architecture and Modernity in Manchuria’ (HKUP, 2017); ‘Luke Him Sau, Architect: China’s Missing Modern’ (Wiley, 2014); ‘The Life of the British Home’ (Wiley, 2012); ‘McMorran & Whitby’ (RIBA, 2009); ‘Modernism in China: Architectural Visions and Revolutions’ (Wiley, 2008); ‘Building Shanghai: The Story of China’s Gateway’ (Wiley, 2006); and ‘Asmara – Africa’s Secret Modernist City’ (Merrell, 2003).