Deyan Sudjic was born in London, studied architecture in Edinburgh, edited Domus magazine in Milan, directed the Venice Architecture Biennale and has curated exhibitions in Istanbul, Copenhagen, Seoul, Glasgow, and Taipei.
He was the founding editor of Blueprint magazine, a former architecture critic for the Guardian, the Observer and the Sunday Times. He was for many years the director of the Design Museum in London. He is the author of several books; the most recent, Stalin’s Architect, Power and Survival in Moscow, is published by MIT.