Paul Dobraszczyk

Paul Dobraszczyk is a British writer and academic whose work addresses architecture, as well as a photographer and visual artist.

Career Dobraszczyk was educated at Wellingborough School from 1987 to 1992, and then read for a Bachelor of Arts in History of Art and Architecture at the University of Reading from 1995-8. He returned to Reading from 2000-1 to read for a Master of Arts in Visual and Verbal Representation in British Culture 1840-1940. He worked as an editor at ArtBibliographies Modern (ProQuest) after completing the MA. He returned to Reading for a third time to read for a PhD in History of Art and Architecture from 2003-6. His thesis was entitled Into the Belly of the Beast: Spatial Representation and London's Main Drainage System, c. 1848-68. From 2006-10, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in Reading's Department of Typography and Graphic Communication on the Arts and Humanities Research Council project Designing Information for Everyday Life, 1815-1914.