David Watkin (architectural historian)

[3] Watkin's main research interest was neoclassical architecture, particularly from the 18th century to the present day, and he published widely on that topic.

He was vice-chairman of the Georgian Group, and was a member of the Historic Buildings Council and its successor bodies in English Heritage from 1980 to 1995.

From 1970 to 2008, he was a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he belonged to a circle of right-wing intellectuals centred on the historian Maurice Cowling.

[8] Relying on The Poverty of Historicism by Karl Popper, Watkin argued that use of the Zeitgeist concept in architectural history was fallacious.

[4] Among the contemporary architects Watkin championed were John Simpson and Quinlan Terry, as well as theorist Léon Krier.