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Tom Dyckhoff

Tom Dyckhoff is a British writer, broadcaster and historian on architecture, design and cities. He has worked in television, radio, exhibitions, print and online media. He is best known for being a BBC TV presenter of The Great Interior Design Challenge, The Culture Show, I Love Carbuncles, The Secret Life of Buildings (on Channel 4) and Saving Britain's Past.

He went to Aylesbury Grammar School (between 1983 and 1987) and then to the private Royal Grammar School Worcester (1987–1989).

Dyckhoff then received a BA in Geography from Oxford University,

He began his career in September 1995, at Perspectives on Architecture, (the Prince of Wales's architectural magazine), before becoming assistant editor at Design magazine, and then exhibitions curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1998. Between 1999 and 2003 was deputy editor of "Space", The Guardian newspaper's design and homes section, and worked on its Weekend magazine.

He is teaching fellow in the history and theory of architecture and cities at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London. He is also History and Theory Tutor in MArch Architecture at Central Saint Martins. He has also taught at other institutions including Design Academy Eindhoven; University of Westminster, London; Cass School of Architecture, London Metropolitan University; and at the Architectural Association, London.

Dyckhoff wrote a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper's Weekend magazine from 2001 until 2020, and from 2003 to 2011, he was the architecture and design critic for The Times newspaper in London. He has written for international publications such as Blueprint, Architects' Journal, GQ, Arena, Wallpaper, Domus, New Statesman, Monocle and Icon. He has taught at University College London, where he was honorary senior research associate, acts as a visiting critic and lecturer at other universities, and regularly holds lectures and hosts events.

Dyckhoff is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, has been a trustee of the Architecture Foundation, and was on the national shortlisting jury for the Stirling Prize for architecture from 2008 to 2012. In 2013 he was a judge on The Stirling Prize.

He has also sat on the architecture committees of the Arts Council, the British Council and the Twentieth Century Society (which campaigns for 20th century heritage), and on the British Council jury selecting the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

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