Dr Moa Carlsson (she/her) is an architectural historian and architect, with a PhD in Architecture from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (Feb. 2019). An Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she has also trained in history of science at the University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science (2016/17).
Her research and teaching focus on environmental histories of cities and urban histories of landscape. With a specific focus on Great Britain after 1918, her work addresses not the history of cities or rural areas but the history of the relationship between them. She has just completed her first book, a monograph titled Scenic Calculations: Landscape, Industry and Planning in Twentieth-Century Britain. (The book manuscript is currently under review at a notable university press.)
Carlsson's most recent major publications are: ‘The UK Landscape Evaluation Movement, 1965-1980’ (Rural History, 2022) and ‘Computing Views, Remodeling Environments’ (Social Studies of Science, 2022).
Previously, she has taught architecture studios, and history and theory seminars at MIT, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Boston Architecture College, Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and the Architectural Association (AA). Before earning her Ph.D., she worked professionally in architecture and landscape architecture in London, New York and Vienna.
Carlsson is a member of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB), Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), the European Architectural History Network (EAHN), the Landscape Research Group (LRG), the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).