Hugh Pearman is the architecture critic of The Sunday Times and editor of The RIBA Journal, the magazine of the Royal Institute of British Architects.[1] His own website, Gabion, contains extended and updated versions of his previously published writing and some web-only content.[2]
He is the author of several books [3][4] including Contemporary World Architecture, published by Phaidon, Airports: A Century of Architecture, published by Laurence King and Abrams, and Equilibrium: the work of Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, published by Phaidon.
He has been attached to The Sunday Times since 1986,[5] and edits the RIBA Journal.[6] Other newspapers he has contributed to include the Guardian, The Observer, the Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He is a columnist for Design Week magazine. Other magazines he has written for include Royal Academy Magazine, Crafts, Architectural Record, the Architectural Review, and World of Interiors, among many other publications.[7] He has served on Arts Council England's architecture advisory group,[8] and was one of the instigators of The RIBA Stirling Prize for Architecture in 1996.[9] From 2000 to 2004 he chaired the "Art for Architecture" initiative at the Royal Society of Arts.[10] He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2001.[11]