Kieran Long is an architecture journalist, critic and teacher in London. At the beginning of July, he became editor of the Architects’ Journal. He was the launch deputy editor of Icon magazine in 2003, and its principal architecture critic for three and a half years. He is also the former deputy editor of Building Design and World Architecture magazines.

His work has appeared in The Guardian and Independent newspapers, Architects Journal, Art Review, Wallpaper, Modern Painters, Baumeister (Germany), A+V (Spain), The Architects Newspaper (USA), Dwell (USA), Forum AID (Sweden), Rum (Sweden) and a variety of other journals and magazines.

He has taught design and history and theory of architecture at several architecture schools in London (including Greenwich, Kingston, Bath and London Metropolitan). He has been an invited critic in every school of architecture in London, as well as schools nationally and internationally. He has also taught on the Design Products course at the Royal College of Art.
As a curator, Kieran organised the In Your Backyard exhibition of contemporary British housing at the Ideal Homes Show at Earls Court in 2007, and is curating an exhibition about emerging UK architecture at the Aedes gallery in Berlin (forthcoming).

He was the co-author of the book Architects Today (Laurence King 2004) and the author of New London Interiors (Merrell 2004). Kieran is also the author of a major forthcoming book on emerging architectural culture, to be published by Laurence King in early 2008.

As a broadcaster, Kieran has appeared on BBC News 24, the Culture Show, Channel 4 News as well as BBC London Radio and most recently the World Service commentating on architecture, design and condiments. He studied English Literature at Cardiff University, and journalism at the University of Westminster. He won the IBP Architectural Critic of the Year award in 2004 (the year of the award’s inception) and was nominated again in 2005 and 2006.

He was nominated for the PPA New Editor of the Year award in 2008.