Catherine Slessor MBE [1] is an architecture writer, critic and former editor of The Architectural Review , [2] [3] [4] [5] and a contributor to Dezeen [6] and Architects' Journal. [7] She received an MBE in 2016 for her services to architectural journalism and in 2021 was elected president of The Twentieth Century Society. [8]
Slessor was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. [2] She studied architecture at the University of Edinburgh, [2] and holds an MA in Architectural History from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. [6] Slessor started her writing career as a technical editor at Architects' Journal in 1987. [3] She moved to The Architectural Review in 1992, [3] and was its editor for five years from 2009-2015. [2] She was the magazine's first female editor. [9] Her books have been translated into several languages, including Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese. [10]
As the editorial torch is passed, we look back at the career of Catherine Slessor and the AR under her leadership.
Tributes from Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw, Tom Dyckhoff, Sou Fujimoto, Hugh Pearman, Roger Zogolovitch and others.[ permanent dead link ]
ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN: ... Catherine Slessor, editor, The Architectural Review, which wields enormous international influence. ...