Hugh Geoffrey Pearman (born 29 May 1955'PEARMAN, Hugh Geoffrey',

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/ref>) is a London-based architectural writer, editor and consultant. He is the author of several books including ''Contemporary World Architecture'' (Phaidon), ''Airports: A Century of Architecture'' (Laurence King and Abrams), ''Equilibrium: the work of Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners'' (Phaidon), and ''Cullinan Studio in the 21st Century'' (Lund Humphries). He edited the

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from September 2006, retiring in December 2020. He was architecture and design critic of

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for 30 years, from 1986 to early 2016. Other newspapers he has contributed to include

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. Other magazines he has written for include Newsweek, Art Quarterly, Royal Academy Magazine, Crafts,

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, the Architectural Review, and World of Interiors, among many other publications. He has served on

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's architecture advisory group, and was one of the instigators of The RIBA

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for Architecture in 1996. From 2000 to 2004 he chaired the "Art for Architecture" initiative at the

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. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2001. He was Visiting Professor in Architecture at the Royal College of Art, London, during 2015. He was an honorary vice-president of London's Architectural Association, 2014-2016. Pearman was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, studied at the Skinners School and

St Chad's College , motto_English = Not what you have, but who you are , scarf = , established = 1904 , principal = Margaret Masson , senior_tutor = Eleanor Spencer-Regan , undergraduates = 409 , postgraduates = 150 , website = , coordinates = , location_map ...

Durham University , mottoeng = Her foundations are upon the holy hills ( Psalm 87:1) , established = (university status) , type = Public , academic_staff = 1,830 (2020) , administrative_staff = 2,640 (2018/19) , chancellor = Sir Thomas Allen , vice_cha ...

. His degree is in English Language and Literature. In December 2020 he appeared on

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as a member of the Durham alumni team Pearman was appointed

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(MBE) in the

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for services to architecture.

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