Tom Dyckhoff

Tom Dyckhoff
Born	1970/1971 (age 52–53) St Albans, England
Occupation	Critic, journalist, author, presenter
Years active	1998–present
Spouse(s)	Claire
Website	tomdyckhoff.com

Tom Dyckhoff is an English architecture critic and broadcaster. He has worked in television, radio, print and online media. He is best known for being a BBC TV presenter of The Great Interior Design Challenge, The Culture Show, I Love Carbuncles (on Channel 4) and Saving Britain's Past.

Early life

He went to Aylesbury Grammar School (between 1983 and 1987) and then went to Royal Grammar School Worcester (1987–1989).

Dyckhoff then received his MAs in Geography from Oxford University, and Architectural History from Bartlett School of Architecture at the University College London.

Career

He began his career in September 1995, at Perspectives on Architecture, (the Prince of Wales's architectural magazine), before becoming exhibitions curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects in February 1998, and then between 1999 and 2003 became deputy editor of "Space", The Guardian newspaper's design and homes section.

Dyckhoff has also written a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper's Weekend magazine since 2001, and also from 2003 to 2011, he was the architecture critic for The Times newspaper in London. He has written for international publications such as Blueprint, Architects' Journal, GQ, Arena, Wallpaper, Domus and Icon. has taught at University College London, and as acts as a visiting critic at other universities, and regularly holds lectures.

Dyckhoff is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects since 2009, a trustee of the Architecture Foundation, and has been on the national shortlisting jury for the Stirling Prize for architecture since 2008.

He has also sat on the architecture committees of the Arts Council, the British Council and the Twentieth Century Society (which campaigns for 20th century heritage), and on the British Council jury selecting the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

He wrote his first book – on architecture and cities since the 1970s – and in 2013 recorded a BBC Radio 4 documentary on Buckminster Fuller (an American architect). He is also an editor of the 21st edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture.

Television career

Since 2006, he has been a Culture Show presenter. Including a special in 2014 about Lego.

In 2009, he presented Saving Britain's Past on BBC2.

In 2011, he was a presenter of Channel 4's Secret Life of Buildings and 'I Love Carbuncles'.

In 2013, he presented The Great Interior Design Challenge on BBC 1.

Personal life

He lives in South East London, with his family. He is married to Claire.

Bibliography

Co-authored with Claire Barrett