Charles Knevitt is Director of the RIBA Trust, which manages the cultural assets and delivers the public outreach programme of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The cultural assets include four million items in the British Architectural Library, at 66 Portland Place, London W1, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London SW7; and the outreach programme includes the annual RIBA Stirling Prize (broadcast live on Channel Four); the Royal Gold Medal; the RIBA International Book Awards; and the RIBA International Conference.
As part of the RIBA Trust's public outreach programme, he was UK Director of the Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture| exhibition and season in Venice, Liverpool and London (2008-09); and following the success of the touring exhibition Palladio 500 in Vicenza, London, Barcelona and Madrid (2008-10), based on the British Architectural Library's unique collection of drawings, the RIBA Trust will mount Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey in New York, Washington DC, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh (2010-11).
Before joining the RIBA in 2004, he was an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster, including Architecture Correspondent of The Sunday Telegraph and The Times. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Community Architecture (Penguin, 1987, with Nick Wates) and Shelter (Polymath, 1994; US edition by Pomegranate, 1996). He has also written and presented television series for Anglia, Granada, Thames and Channel Four.
He is Chairman of the Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain| and in 2008 was chosen by Design Week as one of the 'Hot 50 people making a difference in design' |