Justin McGuirk

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Justin McGuirk is a writer, critic and curator based in London. He is the director of Strelka Press, the publishing arm of the Strelka Institute in Moscow, and the design consultant to Domus. He has been the design columnist for The Guardian and the editor of Icon magazine. In 2012 he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture for an exhibition he curated with Urban Think Tank. He is currently working on a book about activist architecture and social housing in Latin America.

This website collects a small selection of journalism, along with a blog for occasional ramblings.

You can read his Guardian column here.

Telephone: +44 7815 933 051 • Email: mail@justinmcguirk.com