Michael James Wilford CBE (9 September 1938 – 10 March 2023) was an English architect from Hartfield, East Sussex.
[1] Michael James Wilford was born in Surbiton, Surrey on 9 September 1938.
Wilford's work has gained international renown and includes significant public buildings such as performing art centres, art galleries, museums and libraries located around the world.
These projects have won many architectural awards, the most recent including The Royal Fine Art Commission Building of the Year Award in 2001 for The Lowry performing and visual arts centre in Salford, England.
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/88) with Michael Wilford in 2009 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.