Deyan Sudjic OBE

Design MuseumDirector

The current director of the Design Museum and one of the people who has helped spearhead the museum’s move from it’s current Shad Thames location in June and relocate to the former Commonwealth Institute in November.

Sudjic is also a writer and broadcaster who has worked as design and architecture critic for The Observer, as the Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University and has been a visiting professor of The Royal College of Art.

In 1983 he co-founded the architecture magazine Blueprint, where he was also editor and editorial director.

More recently he was 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 a juror for the London Aquatics Centre designed and built for the 2012 Olympics by architect Zaha Hadid, the same year he was awarded an honorary degree from the University for the Creative Arts.

He has written many books on design and architecture, the latest of which are B is for Bahaus (2014) and Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things (2015).

(This copy was written in 2016)