Alan Powers (born 1955) is a British teacher, researcher and writer on twentieth-century architecture and design.
As a writer Powers has been prolific, writing reviews, magazine articles, obituaries of artists and architects and is author of more than twenty books.
Powers has curated several exhibitions, including "Modern Britain 1929–39" (Design Museum, 1999), "Serge Chermayeff" (Kettle's Yard, 2001), "Eric Ravilious" (Imperial War Museum, 2003), "Mind into Matter" (De La Warr Pavilion, 2009), "Eros to the Ritz: 100 years of street architecture" (Royal Academy, 2012/3), "Ardizzone, a retrospective" (House of Illustration, 2016–17), and "Enid Marx" (House of Illustration, 2018).
[4] In 2008 Powers was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in recognition of his standing as one of the pre-eminent experts in the history of 20th-century architecture.
Powers has published his own illustrations in magazines, especially The Spectator during the 1980s, and regularly exhibited watercolours and prints, mostly of architectural or topographical subjects.