Moore was born on 22 March 1961. His brother is the journalist, newspaper editor and
Margaret Thatcher's official biographer
Charles
Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham, and his grandfather was the second Baronet Moore,
Sir Alan Hilary Moore.[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.[5] He unsuccessfully stood for a seat as a Liberal MP at several general elections.
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.[14] He was named critic of the year at the 2014 British Press Awards.[15]
Rowan Moore married Molly Mulready, an immigration and asylum judge, and the daughter of
Sally Mulready, at St Paul's Cathedral in London on 3 February 2024.
Selected works
Panoramas of London (1993)
Struktur, Raum Und Haut (1995)
The New Art Gallery Walsall (2000)
Building Tate Modern: Herzog & De Meuron (2000)
Why We Build (2012)
Anatomy of a Building (2014)
Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century (2016)[16]