Deyan Sudjic (OBE)’s career has spanned journalism, teaching, and writing. He was director of Glasgow UK City of Architecture 1999, and in 2002 he was Director of the Venice Architecture Biennale. He was editor of Domus from 2000 to 2004, and was founding editor of Blueprint from 1983 to 1996. In recognition of his curatorial and creative leadership in successfully establishing the Design Museum of London as the foremost institution of its kind, Deyan Sudjic has been named Director Emeritus from January 2020.

Deyan has published many books on design and architecture, including The Edifice Complex (2006), The Language of Things (2008), Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture (2010), Shiro Kuramata (2013) and B is for Bauhaus (2014). His most recent book, Ettore Sottsass: The Poetry of Things, was published in 2015.