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{{short description|Scottish architecture writer, critic, editor}}
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'''Catherine Slessor''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|MBE}}<ref name="QueenMBE">{{cite web|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/528696/birthday_honours_list_prime_ministers_list_2016.pdf|title=Birthday Honours 2016: the Prime Minister's list|publisher=www.gov.uk|page=80|accessdateaccess-date=2019-02-04}}</ref> is an architecture writer, critic and former editor of ''[[The Architectural Review]]'',<ref name="Wilkinson">{{cite journal |last1=Wilkinson |first1=Tom |title=Catherine Slessor: a trailblazer in male-dominated industries |journal=The Architectural Review |date=30 March 2015 |url=https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/catherine-slessor-a-trailblazer-in-male-dominated-industries/8680696.article |accessdateaccess-date=1 February 2019 |quote=As the editorial torch is passed, we look back at the career of Catherine Slessor and the AR under her leadership.}}</ref><ref name="Waite">{{cite journal |last1=Waite |first1=Richard |title=End of an era: Catherine Slessor leaves the AR |journal=Architects' Journal |date=24 March 2015 |url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/end-of-an-era-catherine-slessor-leaves-the-ar/8680372.article |accessdateaccess-date=5 February 2019}}</ref><ref name="readers">{{cite journal |last1=Foster, Norman et al|display-authors=etal |title=AR readers pay tribute to Catherine Slessor's editorship |journal=Architectural Review |date=May 2015 |issue=1419 |pages=34-3534–35 |url=http://search.ebscohost.com.rp.nla.gov.au/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=102369974&site=ehost-live |accessdateaccess-date=5 February 2019 |quote=Tributes from [[Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank|Norman Foster]], [[Nicholas Grimshaw]], [[Tom Dyckhoff]], [[Sou Fujimoto]], [[Hugh Pearman (architecture critic)|Hugh Pearman]], [[Roger Zogolovitch]] and others. }}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sunday Times Staff |title=The Sunday Times Britain's 500 Most Influential Making Us Look, Listen, Laugh, Cry, Think … and Shop |url=http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/8zMBA6 |accessdateaccess-date=5 February 2019 |work=The Sunday Times |issue=9933 |date=25 January 2015 |page=2 |quote=ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN: ... Catherine Slessor, editor, ''The Architectural Review'', which wields enormous international influence. ...}}</ref> and a contributor to [[Dezeen]]<ref name="dezeen.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dezeen.com/author/catherine-slessor/|title=Catherine Slessor, Author at Dezeen|website=Dezeen|language=en|access-date=2019-02-01}}</ref> and [[Architects' Journal]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/opinion/catherine-slessor|title=Catherine Slessor – The Architects' Journal|website=www.architectsjournal.co.uk|access-date=2019-02-01|archive-date=1 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190201120416/https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/opinion/catherine-slessor|url-status=dead}}</ref> She received an [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]] in 2016 for her services to architectural journalism and in 2021 was elected president of [[The Twentieth Century Society]].<ref name="architectsjournal.co.uk">{{Cite web|url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/architecture-critic-named-next-president-of-c20-society|title=Catherine Slessor|website=AJ|date=14 June 2021 |language=en|access-date=2021-12-26}}</ref>▼
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▲'''Catherine Slessor''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|MBE}}<ref name="QueenMBE">{{cite web|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/528696/birthday_honours_list_prime_ministers_list_2016.pdf|title=Birthday Honours 2016: the Prime Minister's list|publisher=www.gov.uk|page=80|accessdate=2019-02-04}}</ref> is an architecture writer, critic and former editor of ''[[The Architectural Review]]'',<ref name="Wilkinson">{{cite journal |last1=Wilkinson |first1=Tom |title=Catherine Slessor: a trailblazer in male-dominated industries |journal=The Architectural Review |date=30 March 2015 |url=https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/catherine-slessor-a-trailblazer-in-male-dominated-industries/8680696.article |accessdate=1 February 2019 |quote=As the editorial torch is passed, we look back at the career of Catherine Slessor and the AR under her leadership.}}</ref><ref name="Waite">{{cite journal |last1=Waite |first1=Richard |title=End of an era: Catherine Slessor leaves the AR |journal=Architects' Journal |date=24 March 2015 |url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/end-of-an-era-catherine-slessor-leaves-the-ar/8680372.article |accessdate=5 February 2019}}</ref><ref name="readers">{{cite journal |last1=Foster, Norman et al |title=AR readers pay tribute to Catherine Slessor's editorship |journal=Architectural Review |date=May 2015 |issue=1419 |pages=34-35 |url=http://search.ebscohost.com.rp.nla.gov.au/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=102369974&site=ehost-live |accessdate=5 February 2019 |quote=Tributes from [[Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank|Norman Foster]], [[Nicholas Grimshaw]], [[Tom Dyckhoff]], [[Sou Fujimoto]], [[Hugh Pearman (architecture critic)|Hugh Pearman]], [[Roger Zogolovitch]] and others.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sunday Times Staff |title=The Sunday Times Britain's 500 Most Influential Making Us Look, Listen, Laugh, Cry, Think … and Shop |url=http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/8zMBA6 |accessdate=5 February 2019 |work=The Sunday Times |issue=9933 |date=25 January 2015 |page=2 |quote=ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN: ... Catherine Slessor, editor, ''The Architectural Review'', which wields enormous international influence. ...}}</ref> and a contributor to [[Dezeen]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dezeen.com/author/catherine-slessor/|title=Catherine Slessor, Author at Dezeen|website=Dezeen|language=en|access-date=2019-02-01}}</ref> and [[Architects' Journal]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/opinion/catherine-slessor|title=Catherine Slessor – The Architects' Journal|website=www.architectsjournal.co.uk|access-date=2019-02-01}}</ref> She received an [[MBE]] in 2016 for her services to architectural journalism.
 
== Biography ==
Slessor was born in [[Aberdeen]], Scotland.<ref name="Wilkinson"/> She studied architecture at the [[University of Edinburgh]],<ref name="Wilkinson"/> and holds an MA in Architectural History from the [[Bartlett School of Architecture]], University College London.<ref>{{Cite web|urlname=https://www."dezeen.com"/author/catherine-slessor/|title=Catherine Slessor, Author at Dezeen|website=Dezeen|language=en|access-date=2019-02-01}}</ref> Slessor started her writing career as a technical editor at ''Architects' Journal'' in 1987.<ref name="Waite"/> She moved to ''The Architectural Review'' in 1992,<ref name="Waite"/> and was its editor for five years from 2009-2015.<ref name="Wilkinson"/> She was the magazine's first female editor.<ref name="Rage">{{cite web|url=https://www.archdaily.com/780969/rage-rage-against-the-dying-of-the-light-on-turncoats-the-cass-and-architectural-debate/|title=Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light: On Turncoats, The Cass and Architectural Debate|last=Jansen|first=Theo|work=[[ArchDaily]]|date=2016-01-26|access-date=2019-02-05}}</ref> Her books have been translated into several languages, including Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese.<ref>{{cite web |title=Catherine Slessor titles on WorldCat |url=https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=%22Catherine+Slessor%22&fq=+%28x0%3Abook-+OR+%28x0%3Abook+x4%3Aprintbook%29+OR+%28x0%3Abook+x4%3Adigital%29%29&dblist=638&se=&sd=&fc=ln:_25&qt=show_more_ln%3A&cookie |website=WorldCat |access-date=5 February 2019}}</ref>
 
==Selected publications==
*''See-through houses inspirational homes and features in glass'' (2001, Ryland Peters and Small: {{ISBN|1841722006}})<ref>Reviews of ''See-through houses'':
*{{Cite journal|last=Dillon|first=Julie|date=February 2002|title=Review|url=|journal=Houses|volume=|issue=1|pages=113|issn=1440-3382|via=}}
*{{cite news |last1=Killen |first1=Sandra |title=Drawing inspiration |url=http://search.ebscohost.com.rp.nla.gov.au/login.aspx?direct=true&db=anh&AN=200112151L10011088&site=ehost-live |accessdateaccess-date=5 February 2019 |work=The Courier Mail |date=15 December 2001 |location=Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |page=L10 }}{{Dead link|viadate=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*'' Eco-tech: sustainable architecture and high technology'' (1997 (2nd ed. 2001), Thames and Hudson: {{ISBN|0500341575}})<ref>Reviews of ''Echo-tech'':
*{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=February 27, 1998|title=Review|url=|journal=[[The Times Literary Supplement]]|volume=|pages=19|issn=0307-661X|via=}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Kaufman|first=P|date=March 1998|title=Review|url=|journal=Choice|volume=35|issue=7|pages=1183-1184|via=1183–1184}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Lally|first=Ann|date=Fall 1998|title=Review|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27948982|journal=[[Art_Libraries_Society_of_North_AmericaArt Libraries Society of North America#Art_DocumentationArt Documentation|Art Documentation]]|volume=12|issue=2|pages=63|viajstor=27948982}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Davis|first=Colin|date=December 1997|title=Greening technology|url=|journal=The Architectural Review|location=London|volume=202|issue=1210|pages=91-92|via=91–92}}
*{{cite journal |last1=Moore |first1=Steven A. |title=Reviewed Works: ''Eco-Tech: Sustainable Architecture and High Technology'' by Catherine Slessor; ''Sustainable Architecture'' by James Steele; ''Architecture and the Environment: Bioclimatic Building Design'' by David Lloyd Jones |journal=Journal of Architectural Education (1984-) |date=May 2000 |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=245-249245–249 |urljstor=https://www-jstor-org.rp.nla.gov.au/stable/1425573 |accessdate=5 February 2019|via=}}
*{{cite journal |last1=Yannas |first1=Simos |title=Reviewed Works: ''Eco-Tech Sustainable Architecture and High Technology'' by Catherine Slessor, John Linden; ''The Architectural Expression of Environmental Control Systems'' by George Baird |journal=AA Files |date=Autumn 2001 |issue=44 |pages=81-85 |url=https://www-jstor-org.rp.nla.gov.au/stable/29544240 |accessdate=5 February 201981–85 |publisher=Architectural Association School of Architecture|viajstor=29544240 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Lally |first1=Ann |title=Reviewed Work: ''ECO-TECH: SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE AND HIGH TECHNOLOGY'' by Catherine Slessor |journal=Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America |date=Fall 1998 |volume=17 |issue=2 |page=63 |urljstor=https:27948982 |doi=10.1086//www-jstor-orgadx.rp17.nla2.gov.au/stable/27948982 |accessdate=5 February 2019|via=}}</ref>
*{{cite news |last1=Young |first1=Lucie |title=Earth-friendly (but not earthy) |url=http://search.ebscohost.com.rp.nla.gov.au/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=9712140398&site=ehost-live |access-date=5 February 2019 |work=New York Times |date=27 November 1997 |volume=147 |issue=50989 |page=F3 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
*{{cite news |last1=Whitelegg |first1=John |title=Built to consume |url=http://search.ebscohost.com.rp.nla.gov.au/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lxh&AN=278082&site=ehost-live |access-date=5 February 2019 |work=Times Higher Education Supplement |date=13 February 1998 |issue=1319 |page=26 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*''Contemporary doorways: architectural entrances, transitions and thresholds'' (1992, Mitchell Beazley: {{ISBN|1840005092}})<ref>Reviews of ''Contemporary doorways'':
*{{Cite journal|last=Times staff|first=|date=29 April 2002|title=Entrance of the flamboyant front door.|url=http://find.galegroup.com.rp.nla.gov.au/dvnw/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=DVNW&userGroupName=nla&tabID=T003&docPage=article&docId=IF501499058&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|journal=The Times|page=36}}{{Dead link|viadate=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*''Contemporary staircases'' (1990, Mitchell Beazley: {{ISBN|1840003162}})<ref>Reviews of ''Contemporary staircases'':
*{{Cite journal|last=Binney|first=Marcus|date=22 November 2000|title=Step up for a flight of fancy|url=http://find.galegroup.com.rp.nla.gov.au/dvnw/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=DVNW&userGroupName=nla&tabID=T003&docPage=article&docId=IF501422730&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|journal=The Times|page=24[S]}}{{Dead link|viadate=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
 
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