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Rowan William Gillachrist Moore (born 22 March 1961) is an architecture critic. [1]

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Biography

Moore was born on 22 March 1961. His brother is the journalist, newspaper editor and Margaret Thatcher's official biographer Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham, and his grandfather was the second Baronet Moore, Sir Alan Hilary Moore. [2] [3] [4]

Rowan Moore's parents were Ann (nee Miles), who was a county councillor for the Liberal Party in Sussex, and Richard Moore, who was a leader writer for the national newspaper the News Chronicle and political secretary to the leader of the Liberal Party. [5] He unsuccessfully stood for a seat as a Liberal MP at several general elections.

Moore was educated at Westminster School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied architecture. [6] After briefly practising, he turned to journalism. [7] [8] He was editor of the architecture journal Blueprint , architecture editor of the Evening Standard and also wrote for The Guardian. [9]

In 2002 Moore succeeded Lucy Musgrave as director of the Architecture Foundation and resigned in 2008 amid speculation that the failure of a commission for Zaha Hadid to design new headquarters for the institution had left "everyone disappointed and angry". [10] [11] [12] [13]

Thereafter Moore concentrated on journalism and was appointed to the post of architecture critic of The Observer in February 2010. [14] He was named critic of the year at the 2014 British Press Awards. [15] Following the 2024 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final, Moore wrote in praise of hurling, though also suggested it was "unexportable" and, were this not so, then it would be "a global sport". [16]

Rowan Moore married Molly Mulready, an immigration and asylum judge, and the daughter of Sally Mulready, at St Paul's Cathedral in London on 3 February 2024.

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References

  1. ↑ "BBC Radio London - Robert Elms, With Ruthie Foster and Rowan Moore". BBC. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  2. ↑ Margaret Thatcher. October 2020.
  3. ↑ Moore, Rowan (30 December 2018). "Rowan Moore's best architecture of 2018". The Guardian . Archived from the original on 15 May 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  4. ↑ Stockley, Philippa (26 September 2012). "Why We Build by Rowan Moore: review". Britain: Telegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  5. ↑ Roy Greenslade, Press Gang: How Newsmakers Make Profits from Propaganda (London: Macmillan Pan, 2004), p. 134.
  6. ↑ "Tripos examination results from Cambridge University", The Times, 12 July 1982, p. 3. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  7. ↑ Filler, Martin (5 June 2014). "The Insolence of Architecture". The New York Review of Books 2022. ISSN   0028-7504 . Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  8. ↑ "Archinect News Articles tagged "rowan moore"". archinect.com. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  9. ↑ "Rowan Moore".
  10. ↑ "Revolving Door: Rowan Moore Leaves the Architecture Foundation". 8 May 2008.
  11. ↑ Waite, Richard (6 May 2008). "Rowan Moore resigns as director of the Architecture Foundation". Architects Journal. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  12. ↑ Coates, Nigel (23 November 2012). "Rowan Moore Asks Why We Build?". Architectural Review. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  13. ↑ "BBC Radio 3 - Free Thinking, Neil Jordan, the Lonely City, Contemporary Cities". BBC. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  14. ↑ "The Rolex Learning Centre, Lausanne | Architecture". TheGuardian.com . 21 February 2010.
  15. ↑ "The Press Awards – list of winners". TheGuardian.com . 2 April 2014.
  16. ↑ Moore, Rowan (10 August 2024). "Hurling could be a global phenomenon if it weren't such an unexportable sport". The Observer. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  17. ↑ "Rowan Moore books and biography | Waterstones". www.waterstones.com. Retrieved 4 October 2019.


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