Karl Kropf

Dr., Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University & Founder, Built Form Resource

Karl Kropf is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Design and Historic Conservation at Oxford Brookes University and Director of Built Form Resource, an urban design, landscape and heritage consultancy. He has combined academic research in urban morphology and practice in urban design for many years. Recent research has focused on the core concepts of urban morphology as a basis for integrating different methodologies ('Is there a normative science of the built environment' 2021, 'Bridging configurational and urban tissue analysis' 2017). Karl is Associate Editor of the journal Urban Morphology and his Handbook of Urban Morphology was published in 2017 by John Wiley.