Carolyn Steel

MA (Cantab) Dip Arch RIBA

Since qualifying from Cambridge University in 1984, Carolyn has combined practice with teaching, writing and research. She joined the practice in 1989, since when she has completed several buildings for the Central School of Speech and Drama. Her academic work has focused on the everyday lives of cities, and her lecture series Food and the City is an established part of the architectural degree at Cambridge University. She has run successful design units at Cambridge, London Metropolitan University, and at the London School of Economics, where she was inaugural studio director of the Cities Programme. She was a Rome Scholar in 1995-6, researching the historical urban order of the Ghetto. She has presented on BBC TV’s 'One Foot in the Past', has written for Blueprint Magazine is a regular columnist for Building Design. Her book Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives, published by Chatto and Windus in 2008, won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction and was recently featured on a special edition of Radio 4’s The Food Programme.