Tom Dyckhoff

Tom Dyckhoff
Born 1970/1971 (age 44–45) [1]
St Albans, England
Occupation Critic, journalist, author, presenter
Years active 1998–present
Spouse(s) Claire
Website tomdyckhoff.com

Tom Dyckhoff is an English architecture critic and broadcaster. He has worked in television, radio, print and online media. He is best known for being a BBC TV presenter of The Great Interior Design Challenge, The Culture Show, I Love Carbuncles (on Channel 4) and Saving Britain's Past.

Early life

He went to Aylesbury Grammar School (between 1983 and 1987) and then went to Royal Grammar School Worcester (1987–1989).[2]

Dyckhoff then received his MAs in Geography from Oxford University,[3] and Architectural History from Bartlett School of Architecture at the University College London.[4]

Career

He began his career in September 1995, at Perspectives on Architecture, (the Prince of Wales's architectural magazine),[5] before becoming exhibitions curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects in February 1998, and then between 1999 and 2003 became deputy editor of "Space", The Guardian newspaper's design and homes section.[6]

Dyckhoff has also written a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper's Weekend magazine since 2001,[7] and also from 2003 to 2011, he was the architecture critic for The Times newspaper in London.[4][8] He has written for international publications such as Blueprint,[9] Architects' Journal,[10] GQ, Arena, Wallpaper, Domus and Icon.[11] has taught at University College London, and as acts as a visiting critic at other universities, and regularly holds lectures.[4]

Dyckhoff is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects since 2009,[12] a trustee of the Architecture Foundation,[13] and has been on the national shortlisting jury for the Stirling Prize for architecture since 2008.[14][8]

He has also sat on the architecture committees of the Arts Council, the British Council and the Twentieth Century Society (which campaigns for 20th century heritage),[15] and on the British Council jury selecting the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.[16]

He wrote his first book – on architecture and cities since the 1970s – and in 2013 recorded a BBC Radio 4 documentary on Buckminster Fuller (an American architect).[17] He is also an editor of the 21st edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture.[4]

Television career

Since 2006, he has been a Culture Show presenter. Including a special in 2014 about Lego.[18][19]

In 2009, he presented Saving Britain's Past on BBC2.[20]

In 2011, he was a presenter of Channel 4's Secret Life of Buildings[1][21] and 'I Love Carbuncles'.[22]

In 2013, he presented The Great Interior Design Challenge on BBC 1.[23]

Personal life

He lives in South East London, with his family. He is married to Claire.[1]

Bibliography

Co-authored with Claire Barrett

References

  1. 1 2 3 Midgley, Neil (1 August 2011). "Tom Dyckhoff: Britain’s buildings and homes are bad for our health". The Telegraph. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "School Alumni". rgsw.org.ukaccessdate=14 April 2014.
  3. ↑ Dyckhoff, Tom (18 May 2001). "Tom Dyckhoff finds that geography has shaken off the anoraks". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "TV architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff to give Cheltenham Civic Society annual lecture". Gloucestershire Echo. 18 March 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  5. ↑ Richard HillDesigns and Their Consequences: Architecture and Aesthetics, p. 368, at Google Books
  6. ↑ Joe Kerr, Andrew GibsonLondon From Punk to Blair: Revised Second Edition, p. 261, at Google Books
  7. ↑ "Tom Dyckhoff". bbc.co.uk. 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  8. 1 2 Dyckhoff, Tom (14 October 2008). "Stirling Prize 2008 winner: Accordia housing development, Cambridge". The Times. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
  9. ↑ Appleton, Josie (4 March 2005). "Architect of the Year 2004". spiked-online.com. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
  10. ↑ "Tom Dyckhoff". architectsjournal.co.uk. 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
  11. ↑ "In Conversation: with Will Alsop & Tom Dyckhoff". architectureweek.com. 13 April 2005. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  12. ↑ "RIBA announces 12 Honorary Fellowships". architecture.com. 6 October 2009. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
  13. ↑ "Tom Dyckhoff, Peter Rees, and Vijay Thakur join The AF's Board of Trustees". architecturefoundation.org.uk. 25 October 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  14. ↑ "Utterly magical building wins Top UK architecture prize – but no cash". dezeen.com. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  15. ↑ "Journal 4: Post-war Houses". c20society.org.uk. 2000. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
  16. ↑ "Echo/City – An Urban Register". venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org. 2006. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  17. ↑ "An Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". bbc.co.uk. 1 March 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  18. ↑ "TV preview: The Culture Show: Lego – The Building Block of Architecture". Stoke Sentinel. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  19. ↑ "The Culture Show: Lego – The Building Blocks of Architecture". Radio Times. 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  20. ↑ "Saving Britain's Past". bbc.co.uk. 12 August 2009. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  21. ↑ Wright, Mic (4 August 2011). "My Television Week: Dragons' Den, The Secret Life Of Buildings". Huffington Post. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
  22. ↑ Cooke, Rachel (15 August 2011). "The Secret Life of Buildings (Channel 4)". The New Statesman. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  23. ↑ Thornhill, Ted (13 November 2013). "Changing Rooms reborn as The Great Interior Design Challenge as BBC bosses give design show a Bake Off–style makeover". Daily Mail. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
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