Philip Steadman, being interviewed about Vermeer at University College London.
philip steadman, born 1942
professor of architecture
Professor Philip Steadman was educated at Winchester College and Cambridge University. Trained as an architect, he is an architectural teacher and researcher. His particular architectural interest is in the geometry of buildings and their environment. He pursued his research at Cambridge University and the Open University, and works currently at University College London. His interest in the geometry of architecture has led him to a remarkable discovery about the working methods of the painter Vermeer. In his book Vermeer’s Camera he demonstrates convincingly, and to the dismay of some art historians, that Vermeer had used a camera obscura.
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Source: A re-formatted transcript of an interview by Prof. Alan Macfarlane, reproduced with the permission of Philip Steadman and Prof. Macfarlane in 2020.