 | Oliver Wainwright is the architecture and design critic of the Guardian. He has written extensively on architecture, design and urban development for a wide range of international publications, including The Times, Telegraph, Newsweek, Domus, Icon, the Architects’ Journal and Building Design, where he served as the architecture critic for two years. He trained as an architect at the University of Cambridge and the Royal College of Art, and has since worked in public and private practice – at the Architecture and Urbanism Unit of the GLA, under Ken Livingstone, and Design for London, as well as with Rem Koolhaas at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, and at Muf in London. He is a visiting critic at several architecture schools, and has taught on educational outreach programmes at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. He is a member of the curatorial advisory board of the Architecture Foundation and a trustee of Architecture Sans Frontières UK. |
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