

The 369th issue of Blueprint was the last edition published in June 2020. BluPrint magazine and the development of architctural journalism in the. The last editor was Johnny Tucker.īlueprint was published on a monthly basis until 2013 when the frequency was switched to bimonthly. Vicky Richardson, who edited the magazine from 2004 until 2010 went on to be director of architecture design and fashion at the British Council. It has been edited by Sudjic, (who, since 2006, was director of the London Design Museum), architect and critic Rowan Moore. Sudjic continued to edit Blueprint until 1994.īlueprint's subsequent contributors included philosopher Edward Harcourt, novelist JG Ballard, cultural critic James Heartfield and art critic Matthew Collings. He enlisted Sunday Times architecture critic Deyan Sudjic as editor, who in turn recruited a team of young, astute writers including Jonathan Glancey, James Woudhuysen, Rowan Moore, Martin Pawley, and Rick Poynor. In 1983, Murray noticed a hole in the market for an inspirational magazine that presented lavish images and a critical analysis of the industry. It was launched and funded by major UK design world figures including Terence Conran, Marcello Minale, Brian Tattersfield, and Richard Rogers. The magazine took a parallel approach to the different design disciplines, reflecting a belief that fashion, product, furniture and architectural design can share ideas.īlueprint was first published in October 1983 by Peter Murray and Deyan Sudjic. Johnny Tucker, former Blueprint editor Architecture and design do not exist in a vacuum. It offered a mix of criticism, news and feature writing on design and architecture, directed at professionals and non-professionals alike.īlueprint takes architecture and design as its starting point and brings these thing into sharp focus via context, comment and analysis. Blueprint Editorīlueprint was an architecture and design magazine that has been published in the UK between 19. For other uses, see Blueprint (disambiguation).
