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Clive is a writer, publisher and Visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge.
His most recent book is The Story of the Country House, published by Yale University Press, a short narrative history based on decades of writing about the subject. Reviews can be seen here. One of several projects he has undertaken for the Ax:son Johnson Foundation is a study of Halewell, a country house in the Cotswolds. This will be published in 2022. In 2019, Clive collaborated with the photographer Dylan Thomas on Old Homes, New Life: the Resurgence of the British Country House, published by the imprint they set up together: Triglyph Books. It looks at the role of the country house in the 21st century. His first novel is The Birdcage, published by Sandstone Press, which appeared in 2012. Set in Salonika during the First World War, it evolved out of the letters, diaries and memoirs that he read while researching his book War Memorial. Having directed an architectural summer school for the University of Buckingham in 2019, he became instrumental in establishing the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture at Downing College, Cambridge, which opened in 2021. Clive often writes about issues concerning the countryside, planning, the provision of new homes and British history.https://www.cliveaslet.com/