Kevin McCloud

Film, television and radio
Television presenter and author

Kevin McCloud is best known for the internationally acclaimed series Grand Designs which has been running on Channel 4 for over 20 years. It is now shown around the world along with spin off series including Grand Designs: The Street and Grand Designs: House of the Year. In 2015, Grand Designs was awarded the Bafta for Best Feature.

Kevin recently joined forces with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Mary Portas to challenge the government’s commitment to climate change policies for Channel 4’s The Great Climate Fight. Kevin’s other TV work includes two series of Man-Made Home, Kevin’s Supersized Salvage and Kevin McCloud’s Escape To The Wild (Channel 4). He wrote and presented his four part Grand Tour of Europe and spent two and a half weeks in the slums of Mumbai for Channel 4’s 2010 India season.

Kevin has written several books on design and champions sustainable development, context, the historic environment, and ecological construction. He believes that the best architecture relates to where it is, as much as who it is for.

Kevin studied History of Art and Architecture at Cambridge, is an Honorary Fellow of both the RIBA and the Society of Light and Lighting, a fellow of WWF and a recalcitrant patron of a handful of organisations. His two ambitions remain to entertain and to make the built environment better – and consequently ‘make people feel better’. 

He was awarded an MBE in 2014 for his services to architecture.

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