Tim Benton has been professor of art history at The Open University since 1970.
Tim Benton has been professor of art history at The Open University since 1970. His research interests include Le Corbusier's work of the 1920s and 1930s and the history of modern architecture and design. His book Le Corbusier Conférencier - a study of the rhetorical methods used by Corbusier - was published in French by Editions Le Moniteur (2007) and issued in English by Birkhäuser in 2008.
Along with Charlotte Benton, Tim is the external curator of the former Art Deco show at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is currently working on a book on Le Corbusier's domestic architecture (1914-1935).