Anyone who knows anything about the many aspects of London’s built environment knows who Peter Murray is. Born in 1944, he studied at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and went on to become editor of Building Design magazine and the RIBA Journal before, in 1983, he launched the innovative Blueprint magazine with Deyan Sudjic. In 2005, Murray co-founded New London Architecture, a hugely influential membership organisation for the built environment sector, and he later led the revival of The London Society.
How fitting, then, that he should be a recent guest of The London Society’s Talk About London podcast to discuss the latest of his many ventures – making a bid to become Mayor of London in 2028, running as an Independent candidate with the mission of bringing the built environment sector together to deal the city’s acute housing problems, improve its transport systems, strengthen the city’s economy and equip it for the future. He gave my co-host Leanne Tritton and I a taste of his evolving policy programme and the passions and experience that lie behind it.
More Talk About London podcasts can be found on my YouTube channel, along with my separate True London series. All London Society podcasts can be found here. Photo from Peter Murray’s website.
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