Clive Aslet


Clive Aslet is a writer on British architecture and life, a Visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge and publisher of Triglyph Books. For 13 years he was the Editor of Country Life magazine.
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Early life

Aslet was educated at King's College School in Wimbledon and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he earned a degree in the history of architecture.

Career

After graduating, he joined Country Life magazine in 1977 as architectural writer, becoming architectural editor in 1984, deputy editor in 1989, and editor-in-chief in 1993. In 1997 he was named British Society of Magazine Editors' Editor of the Year. After 13 years as editor-in-chief, from 13 March 2006, Aslet left and took on a newly created role of editor-at-large, which allowed him to write more books as well as articles for newspapers such as The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and The Sunday Times. He has regularly broadcast on radio and television current affairs programmes including Newsnight.
Aslet has published over 30 books, including, in 2012, his first novel, The Birdcage.
In 2019, he established the publishing imprint Triglyph Books with the photographer Dylan Thomas.
Two years later he was one of the small team that founded the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture at Downing College, Cambridge.

Books

Aslet is the author of:
  • Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain’s Greatest Architect?
  • Living Tradition: The Architecture and Urbanism of Hugh Petter
  • Old Parkland: Community, Architecture and the American Ideal 2022
  • Collecting Nature: The History of the Herbarium and Natural Specimens
  • The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People
  • Mawson: The Art and Craft of Garden Making
  • The Academy: Celebrating the work of John Simpson at the Walsh Family Hall, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
  • Building Beautiful: Classical Houses
  • The Real Crown Jewels of England: 100 Places That Make Us Great
  • Old Homes, New Life: The Resurgence of the British Country House
  • The Birdcage,
  • The Age of Empire: Britain's Imperial Architecture
  • Strands of History: Northbank Revealed
  • An Exuberant Catalogue of Dreams: The Americans who Revived the Country House in Britain
  • The Edwardian Country House: A Social and Architectural History
  • War Memorial: The Story of One Village's Sacrifice from 1914 to 2003
  • The Arts and Crafts Country House: From the Archives of Country Life
  • Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside
  • The English House
  • The Landmarks of Britain: The Five Hundred Places that Made Our History
  • A Horse in the Country: A Diary of a Year in the Heart of England
  • The Story of Greenwich
  • Inside the House of Lords
  • Anyone for England?
  • Countryblast: Your Countryside Needs You Now
  • The American Country House
  • Quinlan Terry: The Revival of Architecture
  • The National Trust Book of the English house
  • A History of Elveden
  • Enchanted Forest: The Story of Stansted in Sussex
  • The Last Country Houses