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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Murray Fraser

Jonathan Hill obituary

Jonathan Hill’s books delivered subtle ruminations on how architecture, landscape and history are intertwined.
Jonathan Hill’s books delivered subtle ruminations on how architecture, landscape and history are intertwined. Photograph: Izabela Wieczorek

My friend Jonathan Hill, who has died aged 65 from cancer, was a design tutor and architectural historian at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, from the late 1980s.

There he helped to set up a new type of doctorate, an architectural design PhD, which he took himself, becoming its first graduate in 2000 and directing it for two decades.

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