Dan Cruickshank
Professor Dan Cruickshank (born 1949) is an architectural historian and television presenter, currently working for the BBC, and lives in Spitalfields, London. He has written several books about the architecture of London, particularly on its Georgian architecture, and wrote an authoritative history of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. He is an Honorary Fellow of Royal Institute of British Architects with a BA in Art, Design and Architecture. For three years he was also a visiting professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Sheffield. He is a leading expert on architecture and historic buildings, and a frequent contributor to The Architects' Journal and The Architectural Review. He is an active member of the Georgian Group and a member of the Architectural Panel of the National Trust. In 2003, he presented a documentary entitled Towering Ambitions: Dan Cruickshank at Ground Zero following the debate and discussion that led to the selection of Daniel Libeskind's design for the World Trade Center site in New York City. In 2005, he presented a documentary on the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - a set of rolls of nitrate film taken in the early 20th century, depicting everyday life in Britain, which were discovered in 1994 in Blackburn. In 2006, he presented "Dan Cruickshank's Marvels of the Modern Age", a series focusing on the development of modernism in design, from Greek and Roman architecture, to Bauhaus and the present. (Source: Wikipedia)
