James Taylor-Foster

James Taylor-Foster is a British architecture writer, editor, designer and curator residing in Venice, Italy (and previously in Rotterdam, Netherlands). He is the European Editor-at-Large for the Chilean media platform ArchDaily—the "world's most visited architecture website"^[1]—and has written for Volume Magazine,^[2] Disegno,^[3] Monocle,^[4] Log and more. Alongside Curator David Basulto,^[5] Taylor-Foster is Assistant Curator for the pavilion of the Nordic Countries (designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Architect Sverre Fehn) at the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture, directed by Alejandro Aravena.

Trained in architecture, Taylor-Foster has previously worked for Francine Houben at Mecanoo in Delft as editor of the monograph People, Place, Purpose: the World According to Mecanoo.^[6][7] He co-edits The Bartlett School of Architecture's biannual journal LOBBY Magazine^[8] and is a regular broadcaster on Monocle 24 radio (The Monocle Daily, Section D, The Urbanist, The Globalist, and The Briefing).^[9] He lectures widely, most recently as part of the London Festival of Architecture^[10][11] and at the Charles Correa Foundation's Building as Ideas conference in Goa, India.^[12]

In 2011 Taylor-Foster's published Monet: Colour in Impressionism. In 2012, a digital edition of the same title became one of the first interactive art history e-books in the Apple iBookstore.^[13] The book was described by curator and broadcaster Sandrine Voillet as "thoroughly written"^[14] and artist Lydia Bauman as "[resonating] perfectly with one of the most popularly loved subjects in art history."^[15] In 2009 he founded the Lincoln Philosophy Café, an open society for philosophical and topical discussion based in the city of Lincoln, England.

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