Kieran Long
Editor
The Architects' Journal
Kieran Long is an architecture journalist, critic and teacher in London. He has been the editor of the Architects’ Journal since July 2007, and the editor-in-chief of AJ and the Architectural Review since January 2009.
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, Art Review, Wallpaper, GQ Style, Modern Painters, Baumeister (Germany), A+V (Spain), The Architects Newspaper (USA), C3 (Korea), Dwell (USA), Forum AID (Sweden), Rum (Sweden) and a variety of other journals, websites 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), and at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. He has been an invited critic in many schools in the UK, as well as TU Berlin, KTH Stockholm and Yale University. 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).
As a broadcaster, Kieran has appeared on BBC News, the Culture Show, Channel 4 News as well as BBC Radio and the World Service commentating on architecture and design. Most recently, he appeared on Radio 3’s Night Waves talking about the Omega Group exhibition at the Courtauld.
Kieran is the author of three books: New London Interiors (Merrell, 2003), Architects Today (Laurence King, 2004) and Hatch: the new architectural generation (Laurence King 2008). He has contributed to a number of other books and academic journals on subjects as diverse as social housing in the East End of London,
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.
His work has appeared in The Guardian and Independent newspapers, Art Review, Wallpaper, GQ Style, Modern Painters, Baumeister (Germany), A+V (Spain), The Architects Newspaper (USA), C3 (Korea), Dwell (USA), Forum AID (Sweden), Rum (Sweden) and a variety of other journals, websites 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), and at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. He has been an invited critic in many schools in the UK, as well as TU Berlin, KTH Stockholm and Yale University. 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).
As a broadcaster, Kieran has appeared on BBC News, the Culture Show, Channel 4 News as well as BBC Radio and the World Service commentating on architecture and design. Most recently, he appeared on Radio 3’s Night Waves talking about the Omega Group exhibition at the Courtauld.
Kieran is the author of three books: New London Interiors (Merrell, 2003), Architects Today (Laurence King, 2004) and Hatch: the new architectural generation (Laurence King 2008). He has contributed to a number of other books and academic journals on subjects as diverse as social housing in the East End of London,
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.
