Rowan William Gillachrist Moore (born 22 March 1961) is an architecture critic.
[2][3][4] Rowan Moore's parents were Ann (nee Miles), who was a county councillor for the Liberal Party in Sussex, and Richard Moore, who was a leader writer for the national newspaper the News Chronicle and political secretary to the leader of the Liberal Party.
Moore was educated at Westminster School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied architecture.
[9] In 2002 Moore succeeded Lucy Musgrave as director of the Architecture Foundation and resigned in 2008 amid speculation that the failure of a commission for Zaha Hadid to design new headquarters for the institution had left "everyone disappointed and angry".
[10][11][12][13] Thereafter Moore concentrated on journalism and was appointed to the post of architecture critic of The Observer in February 2010.