An author, broadcaster and designer, Kevin is best known for Channel 4’s Grand Designs and for his annual coverage of the Stirling Prize.
He champions issues such as context, the historic environment and sustainable construction. His two ambitions are to entertain and improve the built environment.
As well as the Grand Designs and Demolition series, Channel 4 has also screened Kevin McCloud and the Big Town Plan – a series covering the problems of urban regeneration and design quality in the public realm – and Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour. In January 2010 Channel 4 also screened Slumming It, a two-part documentary in which Kevin travelled to Dharavi in India to experience life in one of Asia’s biggest slums.
In response to the terrible quality of housing in Britain, Kevin founded the development company Hab Housing in 2006. In 2009 he helped craft and launch the Great British Refurb campaign, a project which – working with the UK Green Building Council and the environmental charity WWF – is committed to helping people to give their homes a full energy makeover.
Kevin was awarded two honorary doctorates in 2005, from Plymouth and Oxford Brookes universities, and an honorary fellowship of RIBA in 2007.