Robert Furneaux Jordan

• 1934–63, Lecturer at the Architectural Association School
• 1948–51 Principal, Architectural Association School
• 1951–61 Architectural Correspondent, The Observer, London.
• 1961–62 Hoffman Wood Professor of Architecture, University of Leeds
• 1962-? Visiting Professor, Syracuse University, New York

Works

Detective novels

• The Ingenious Mr Stone, 1945: a detective story about the poisoning of the ultra-High Church headmistress of a girls' school in Devonshire
• Let's Talk of Graves, of Worms, of Epitaphs, 1975:. A fictional account of an Anglican clergyman who becomes Pope, loosely based on Lytton Strachey's life of Cardinal Manning
• Oh, Where are Bloody Mary's Earrings?, 1972: concerns a pair of earrings given as a wedding present by Philip II of Spain to Mary I of England, and the times they were stolen or copied between then and the Edwardian period
• The Homicidal Colonel, 1970: concerns a psychopathic colonel from the American Deep South who reinvents himself as an English country squire and later disappears back to America, there committing a series of sex murders.
• The Month of the Mangled Models, 1977: a series of murders set at the time of the Pre-Raphaelite and Arts and Crafts movements

  Works on architecture

• European Architecture in Colour: from the Greeks to the Nineteenth Century
• Victorian Architecture
• Le Corbusier
• Spirit of the Age - Eight Centuries of British Architecture
• Concise History of Western Architecture