Mark Wilson Jones is an architectural historian whose prime research concerns Greek and Roman architecture. He brings his investigations alive with a design perspective which stems from his earlier career as an architect in London and Rome before becoming an academic. His working methods have an archaeological character while his interests span across the classical tradition, while engaging too with modern and contemporary design issues. Having begun his architectural education at the University of Cambridge he went on to win the Rome Prize in Architecture at the British School at Rome. He is currently in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath where he teaches history, theory and studio. His first book Principles of Roman Architecture (Yale University Press 2000) put forward a fresh vision of how Roman architects designed; it won two important prizes and is now in its third edition. His later book with the same press Origins of Classical Architecture has an even more ambitious scope, seeking to understand how and why the Doric and Ionic and Corinthian orders came into being. His favorite building of all - as it is of so many architects - is the subject of his new book, The Pantheon in Rome from Antiquity to the Present, co-edited with Tod Marder and published by Cambridge University Press (2015).