Rowan Moore is the architecture critic for the Observer, and previously for the Evening Standard.
He is also a trained architect, and between 2002 and 2008 was the Director of the Architecture Foundation.
His award-winning book Why We Build was published by Picador in 2012. In 2014 he was named Critic of the Year by the UK Press Awards. His latest book is Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century.