Who is tom dyckhoff

I also teach in the Spatial Practices department at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, where I devised and now run the history and theory module for postgraduate MArch architecture students, which focuses on the links between architecture, urbanism and politics; and where I supervise final-year dissertations for architecture undergraduates.

I have also taught at various times on degrees at other institutions, including Eindhoven Design Academy, the Netherlands, the Architectural Association, London, the University of Westminster, London, and London Metropolitan University. He is Senior Teaching Fellow in the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, teaching on the Making Cities course for all first-year faculty undergraduates, and the history and theory of architecture course for second-year architecture undergraduates.

He also teaches in the Spatial Practices department at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, where he runs the history and theory module for postgraduate MArch architecture students, which focuses on the the links between architecture, urbanism and politics; and where he supervises final-year dissertations for architecture undergraduates.

As a writer, critic and broadcaster about architecture, cities, landscapes and design, Tom has worked for 25 years writing short- and long-form journalism and books, and writing and presenting television, radio and podcast documentaries, series and programmes on topics from Buckminster Fuller and Oscar Niemeyer to a history of attitudes to heritage. Tom was for a decade architecture and design critic for The Times newspaper and, before that, deputy homes and design editor at The Guardian, associate editor of Design magazine and assistant editor of Perspectives on Architecture magazine.

He has written a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper's Weekend magazine for 20 years, and has long written extensively for a wide range of international publications, both mass market and specialist, including Esquire, GQ, Wallpaper, New Statesman, Domus, Icon and Blueprint.

He also wrote and presented many short- and full-length documentaries on architecture, cities and design for BBC television's long-running weekly arts programme, The Culture Show. He has sat on the juries for many architecture and design prizes and competitions, such as, from to , the national shortlisting jury for the Stirling Prize and the RIBA's awards committee, the selection jury for the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale and, in , the Stirling Prize finalists.

Please send Tom a huge thank you for providing such a highlight for the night. Medway Design and Regeneration Awards He is a pleasure to deal with, so laid back but informative, engaging and people really responded to him. Host, Wood Awards Everyone has commented on how great Tom was last night, really injected some energy into the ceremony so please pass on our thanks! His insight and expertise in this area really helped to bring to life our key messages. Host and Speaker - World Interiors Awards I genuinely cannot thank Tom enough, he was so accommodating, super easy to work with, made the crowd laugh lots and did such a brilliant job.

It was an absolute pleasure to have him. His sound bites to camera were also good too. Host and Judge — Balvenie Masters of Craft Awards Could you please send our sincerest thanks to Tom for making the evening such a great success! He has been an absolute pleasure to work with from beginning to end. We couldn't have asked for a better host for the evening — he was charming, humorous and rounded it with good bites of intellectual comment — just as we knew he would.

We really appreciate the time he took out to research the finalists in such detail and to write a very appropriate introductory speech. We do appreciate all his hard work - the evening wouldn't have been possible without him.

We look forward to working with him again in the future. Dyckhoff seems equally at home in the realm of academia as much as in mainstream media. Some initial examples he mentions are the astounding cathedral of Mejorada del Campo outside Madrid — built from scrap materials by one ex-monk — but also historical examples of would-be architects not recognised by the profession, such as the pioneering 19th-century figure Sarah Losh. He believes in reskilling and lifelong learning.

The personal aspect of this project goes beyond his work in front of the camera, as it was television that sparked his own childhood interest in architecture and place.

Acknowledging the personal and political aspects of his own discovery of the built environment, his recent and future projects seem to call for an anti-elitist and more inclusive look at architecture and place. The goal throughout is still communication: communicating ideas about buildings and spaces and landscapes to people. As for his next projects, the book and the PhD, these promise to continue to do what Dyckhoff does best — to apply his knowledge and enthusiasm to tease out illuminating insights from recent and personal history.

I look forward to him sharing them with the public, as well as welcoming him back to the next FX Talks. Progressive Media International Limited. Copyright , All rights reserved.