Kyle Dugdale

Kyle Dugdale is an architect and historian. He holds a degree in classics from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a professional degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and a doctoral degree from Yale, where he was awarded the university’s Theron Rockwell Field Prize and was selected by School of Architecture students as recipient of the Professor King-lui Wu Teaching Award. A resident of New York City, he has practiced in London, Chicago, and New Haven, and has also taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. At Yale he is active in both graduate and undergraduate programs.

Dugdale’s research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the John Hay Whitney Fellowship, the Harvey Fellows Program, and awards from the Society of Architectural Historians, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. He is a Senior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography.

Much of Dugdale’s writing and teaching has focused on architecture’s claims to metaphysical significance, with a particular interest in modernity’s monuments as markers of aspiration and belief. He is currently working on the future of classical architecture.

Dugdale’s work has been published in journals including Architectural Record, Classicist, Clog, Image, Journal of Architectural Education, Perspecta, Thresholds, Utopian Studies, and Wolkenkuckucksheim. He is author of Babel’s Present (Standpunkte, 2016), co-editor of Towers in the City (Yale School of Architecture, 2021), and author of the monograph Architecture After God (Birkhäuser, 2023). His most recent book, for a broader readership, is Coloring the White House (White House Historical Association, 2025).