Kyle Dugdale

Kyle Dugdale is an architect and historian at Yale University School of Architecture. He holds a degree in classics from Corpus Christi College (Oxford), a professional degree from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and a doctoral degree from Yale University. He has practiced in London, Chicago, and New Haven, and has also taught at Columbia University and at the City College of New York.

Much of Dugdale’s writing has focused on architecture’s claims to metaphysical significance, with a particular interest in architecture as a marker of identity, aspiration, and belief. His current interests also include questions of architecture’s ethical function and the future of classical architecture.

Dugdale’s work has been published in journals including Classicist, Clog, Image Journal, 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).