Peter Murray (architect)

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Peter Murray (Hon. FRIBA. FRSA) is a British architect and journalist who has made a career in architectural communications and surface design.

He was editor of Building Design newspaper and then the RIBA Journal. In 1983, he launched Blueprint magazine; this was followed by Eye, the international review of graphic design and Tate magazine for the Tate Gallery. He is chairman of Wordsearch, a consultancy explaining and promoting architecture, planning and the built environment. He has worked on major projects around the world including Broadgate in the UK, Taipei 101, Taiwan, Union Square in Hong Kong, and Avant Seine in Paris.

A prolific author, his major works include "The Saga of Sydney Opera House" and "Architecture and Commerce."

In 2004, Murray launched the first London Architecture Biennale (now the London Festival of Architecture) in Clerkenwell.

He is Honorary Secretary of the Bedford Park Society and is director of the Cycle to Cannes Charity Challenge which aims to raise £500,000 a year for good causes including the promotion of urban cycling and sustainable transport systems.

A friend of singer and actor Bernard Cribbins since school days, Peter Murray played banjo on Bernard's sixties hit 'Hole in the Ground'.