Kevin McCloud - Chalke History Festival

Kevin McCloud

Kevin McCloud is best known for the internationally acclaimed series Grand Designs which has been running on Channel 4 for 25 years. It is now shown around the world along with spin off series including Grand Designs: The Streets and Grand Designs: House of the Year. In 2015, Grand Designs was awarded the Bafta for Best Feature and its UK reach is now over 32 million people. Kevin recently joined forces with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Mary Portas to challenge the government’s commitment to climate change policies for Channel 4’s The Great Climate Fight. Kevin’s other TV work includes Man-Made Home, Kevin’s Supersized Salvage and Kevin McCloud’s Escape To The Wild. He wrote and presented his four-part Grand Tour of Europe and spent two and a half weeks in Dharavi for Slumming It, part of C4’s 2010 India season. Kevin has written several books on design and champions sustainable development, context, the historic environment, and ecological construction. He is an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University, the RIBA and the Institute off Chartered Foresters. He is also a Fellow of WWF – UK. He was awarded an MBE in 2014 for his services to architecture and sustainability.

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