Director of Research
Professor
History of Design Programme
School of Humanities
research@rca.ac.uk
hod@rca.ac.uk
Jeremy Aynsley is Director of Research and Professor of History of Design.
Jeremy Aynsley is a graduate of the University of Sussex (BA, MA) and the Royal College of Art (PhD). He is author of Designing Modern Germany (2009, London: Reaktion Books), Graphic Design in Germany 1890–1945 (2000, London: Thames & Hudson) and Nationalism and Internationalism in Design in the 20th Century (1994, London: V&A). He has also edited several books including The Banham Lectures: Essays on Designing the Future (2009, London: Berg) and Imagined Interiors: Representing the Domestic Interior since the Renaissance (2006, London: V&A).
Jeremy Aynsley chairs the College’s Research Committee and is a member of a number of external advisory boards including the AHRC Peer Review College. Recipient of several major research grant awards, he was Director of the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior (RCA) from 2001 to 2006 and Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded research project The Viennese Café and fin-de-siècle culture from 2006 to 2009. Jeremy Aynsley teaches on the MA in History of Design, run jointly with the Victoria and Albert Museum, and also supervises research students. He has overseen the successful completion of twelve PhD and four MPhil studentships in the History of Design programme.