Eamonn Canniffe is a Principal Lecturer at the MSA. He was born in Manchester in 1960 and was educated in Architecture at Cambridge and Harvard Universities. In 1996 he held a Rome Scholarship in the Fine Arts at the British School at Rome. Between 1986 and 1998 he taught at the University of Manchester School of Architecture, and between 1998 and 2006 at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture. He is the author of ‘Urban Ethic: Design in the Contemporary City’ (Routledge 2006) and ‘The Politics of the Piazza: the history and meaning of the Italian square’ (Ashgate 2008), which he presented at the De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies at Harvard University in 2009. He is co-author (with Tom Jefferies) of ‘Manchester Architecture Guide’ (1999) and (with Peter Blundell Jones) of ‘Modern Architecture through Case Studies 1945-1990’ (Architectural Press 2007), a Chinese edition of which 现代建筑的演变 1945—1990年 was published in 2009. Future publications include the editing of ‘The City Past and Present: Global perspectives on urban history and change’ (Ashgate 2009). He has recently been appointed as Architecture Series Editor for Ashgate Publishing nurturing the publication of high quality and original research by international authors during the next few years.