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Name
  
Deyan Sudjic

Role
  
Writer



Movies
  
How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?

Books
  
B is for Bauhaus: An A‑Z of, The Language of Things, The Edifice Complex, Norman Foster: A Life in Arc, The Language of Things

Similar People
  
Norberto Lopez Amado, Norman Foster, Alan Aboud, Peter Cook, Fiona MacCarthy

Education
  
University of Edinburgh

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Deyan Sudjic, (born 6 September 1952) is a British writer and broadcaster, specializing in the fields of design and architecture. He is the director of the Design Museum, London.

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Life and career

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Sudjic was educated at Latymer Upper School, at the time a Direct Grant Grammar School, based in Hammersmith in West London. He attended the University of Edinburgh. He grew up in Acton, London; his parents spoke Serbo-Croat at home. His father worked for the BBC World Service.

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In 1970, as a teen, he contributed to Schoolkids OZ, the subject of an obscenity trial the following year.

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Sudjic was the design and architecture critic for The Observer, the Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University, visiting professor at the Royal College of Art, and co-chair of the Urban Age Advisory Board.

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In 1983, he co-founded, with Peter Murray and Simon Esterson, Blueprint, a monthly architecture magazine and went on to be the magazine's editor and then its editorial director. From 2000-04, he was the editor of Domus. In 2000, he was made OBE.

He was the director of Glasgow's UK City of Architecture and Design program in 1999, and the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002. He was also a juror for the design of London Aquatics Centre, which was designed and built for the 2012 Olympics by architect Dame Zaha Hadid. Sudjic became director of the Design Museum in 2006.

In 2012, Sudjic was awarded an honorary degree from the University for the Creative Arts.

Sudjic has contributed to The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and other publications.

Selected publications

  • Cult Objects. Paladin Books. 1985. ISBN 0-586-08483-5. 
  • Cult Heroes: How To Be Famous For More Than Fifteen Minutes. Andre Deutsch. 1989. ISBN 0-233-98355-4. 
  • The 100 Mile City. Harcourt. 1993. ISBN 0-15-642357-X. 
  • Ron Arad. Laurence King Publishing. 2001. ISBN 1-85669-258-2. 
  • Norman Foster and the British Museum (edited with Spencer De Grey, written by Norman Foster). Prestel Verlag. 2001. ISBN 3-7913-2541-8. 
  • John Pawson Themes and Projects. Phaidon. 2004. ISBN 0-7148-4452-7. 
  • Future Systems. Phaidon. 2006. ISBN 0-7148-4469-1. 
  • The Edifice Complex: How the Rich and Powerful Shape the World. Penguin. 2006. ISBN 0-14-101672-8. 
  • The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects. W.W. Norton. 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-07081-1. 
  • Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture. Weidenfeld. 2010. ISBN 978-0-297-85868-3. 
  • B is for Bauhaus. Particular Books (an imprint of Penguin). 2014. ISBN 9780140515930. 
  • Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things. Phaidon. 2015. ISBN 9780714869537. 

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