Malcolm Quantrill (25 May 1931 – 22 September 2009) was a British architect, academic and architecture theorist. His best known books are ''The Environmental Memory – Man and Architecture in the Landscape of Ideas'' (1986) and ''Finnish Architecture and the Modernist Tradition'' (1998). He was a specialist in the history of the modern architecture of Finland. He was the first person to write critical monographs in any language on three individual Finnish modernist architects, Alvar Aalto – ''Alvar Aalto: A Critical Study'' (1983) – Reima Pietilä – ''Reima Pietilä: Architecture, Context, Modernism'' (1985) – and Juha Leiviskä – ''Juha Leiviska and the Continuity of Finnish Modern Architecture'' (2001). Already during his lifetime, he acquired a reputation for thorough and innovative scholarship in architecture, bringing a questioning attitude to well-known figures and canonical architectural history.
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