Amy Thomas is Associate Professor of architectural and cultural history in the Department of Architecture at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) where her research explores the relationships between design, social life, and the city, at every scale. She is the author of the book The City in the City: Architecture and Change in London’s Financial District (MIT Press, 2023) which details the post-war development of the City of London, and co-editor of the open-access book Teaching Design for Values: Concepts, Tools, and Practices (TU Delft Open, 2022). Amy has published articles in The Journal of Architecture, Grey Room, Architectural Theory Review and ARCH+. In 2020 she was awarded a ‘VENI’ personal grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for a three-year project on gender inequality and workplace design (2021-2024). In addition to her research, she is an advocate for equality, diversity, and inclusion in architectural education, collaborating internationally on projects of this theme.

Amy is part of the Building Ideologies Group and the Interiors Buildings Cities Group. She teaches across the BSc and MSc Architecture programmes and in the Berlage Centre for Advanced Studies, on themes that include architecture and urbanism in the 19^th and 20^th century, architecture and gender, the history of the architectural profession, architecture and film, architectural historiography, and the history of ideas in design and architecture. She is particularly interested in teaching that combines practice and theory, with alternative methods including film, photography, music and the visual arts. Amy is available to supervise PhD students on the themes of: political economy and architecture; gender and architecture; social history in the built environment, the history of commercial real estate, use and users in architecture; film, art and representation. 

Amy has a PhD in the History of Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL). Prior to TU Delft, she held the position of Harper-Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago 2015-2017. She has also taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture University College London, Queen Mary University of London, and Regents University London. 

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