Clive Aslet

Background

About Clive Aslet

Clive Aslet, who is a Visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, has written over 30 books, and has talked at every literary festival under the sun. He began his career on the magazine Country Life where he was editor for 13 years, followed by a long stint as editor at large. His journalism has been prolific, not just for Country Life but all the major broadsheets, Sunday papers and magazines. He is also an experienced broadcaster. In 2019, he co-founded the prize-winning publishing house Triglyph Books with the photographer Dylan Thomas. Two years later he was instrumental in establishing the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture at Downing College, Cambridge, for which he became a Visiting Professor in 2021. Clive’s first book was The Last Country Houses, Yale University Press, in 1982. Since then he has returned to Yale twice, most recently for The Story of the Country House. Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain’s Greatest Architect? was published by Triglyph in 2024.