Oliver Wainwright

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Oliver Wainwright
BornJuly 1984 (age 37)
England
Alma mater University of Cambridge, Royal College of Art
Occupation Architecture critic
Parent(s) Martin Wainwright

Oliver Wainwright (born July 1984 [1] ) is a British architecture and design critic. He has written for the British newspapers The Guardian and The Times and is the Features Editor for the industry magazine Building Design . [2] [3] He trained and worked as an architect before becoming a journalist [4] [5]

Oliver Wainwright studied architecture at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a double first, before the Royal College of Art. [6]

As well as being a writer and journalist, Wainwright has collaborated on design projects with the Architecture Foundation and the National Building Museum, and has lectured at several British architecture schools. [7] He is the son of former Guardian journalist Martin Wainwright.

Wainwright has praised the work of architect firm Stanton Williams and defended the company's design of the Sainsbury Laboratory after it won the 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize, despite its superficially prefabricated style. [8] He has criticised the design of the Liverpool Museum, highlighting problems of being over budget and in his opinion too close to the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City, at the time a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [3] He described the restaurant in the Walkie Talkie tower at 20 Fenchurch Street as "like being in an airport terminal". [9] [10]

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  3. 1 2 MacLeod, Suzanne (2013). Museum Architecture: A New Biography. Routledge. p. 30. ISBN   978-1-134-05362-9.
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