Rowan Moore
British architecture critic and journalist

Rowan Moore

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British architecture critic and journalist
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Rowan Moore is an architecture critic. He is the brother of the journalist and newspaper editor Charles Moore. He trained as an architect at the University of Cambridge, but, having gone into practice, turned to journalism. He has been editor of the architecture journal Blueprint, and has written for the Evening Standard (London) and The Guardian. In 2002 he succeeded Lucy Musgrave as director of the Architecture Foundation, leaving to concentrate on journalism full-time in 2008. That directorship is now held by Sarah Ichioka.

Selected works

  • Panoramas of London (1993)
  • Struktur, Raum Und Haut (1995)
  • The New Art Gallery Walsall (2000)
  • Building Tate Modern: Herzog & De Meuron (2000)
  • Why We Build (2012)
  • Anatomy of a Building (2014)
  • Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century (2016)