Recent & upcoming
February/ March 2022
Library and Archives Fellow, University of East Anglia
March 2022
+27,179 (Erratic). Accounting for what is lost through the literary and the archival.
Presentation. 'Architecture and its Stories', University College Dublin & Museum of Irish Literature.
March 2022
14 million tonnes of Debris: Demolition, salvage and re-use in London's WWII bombsites, 1940-45.
Presentation. 'Using What We Have: Architectural Histories of Fragments, Ruins, Rationed Resources and Obsolete Spaces', Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, University of Liverpool.
April 2022
A Bombsite Flora: Making Present London's WWII bombed landscape through a photographic archive of contemporary plant occurrences as 'remnant' species.
Presentation. 'Spectres of Time in Space: Tracing Phantom Temporalities with Architectural Methodologies', University of Cambridge.
2021
Online publication. 'Adjacency' and 'Implication' in 'PractisingEthics.org' (Awarded RIBA President's Award for Research 2021).
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About
Education
PhD Architectural History
Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
2018 -
MA Architectural History
Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
2010
BA Fine Art
Goldsmith College, University of London
2005
Teaching
Lecturer (History and Theory)
MA Landscape Architecture
Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
2020 -
Senior Lecturer (Critical and Contextual Studies)
School of Art, Architecture and Design London Metropolitan University
2016 -
Associate Lecturer in Architectural Design
Oxford Brookes University
2015 - 2018
Danielle Hewitt is an artist and historian. Danielle’s work explores the resonance of past forms and materialities in the landscape; questioning how making these evident can offer opportunities to reconsider the ways in which certain histories are presented now, and how this might affect future thought and actions. This artistic-historiographical practice reflects critically on the nature of historical documents and evidence to communicate complex and contested histories through visual and poetic methods.
The body of ongoing research shown here examines the material flows of debris from London’s WWII bombsites and follows the material, political, and cultural networks that they lead to. This practice-based research forms part of a PhD in Architectural History, currently being completed at the Bartlett School of Architecture and funded by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.