Christine Murray is a Canadian-born architecture writer, critic and former editor of

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and

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, and a contributor to

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and ''

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''. She is founder and editor of The Developer magazine. Murray was named an honorary fellow of the

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in 2016 for her contribution to architecture and was named an honorary fellow of Royal Incorporation of Architects In Scotland in 2022.

Biography

Christine Murray was born in

Oakville, Ontario Oakville is a town in Halton Region, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Lake Ontario between Toronto and Hamilton. At its 2021 census population of 213,759, it is Ontario's largest town. Oakville is part of the Greater Toronto Area, one of t ...

, Canada. She studied English literature at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institu ...

and holds an MA in Creative Writing and English Literature from

Concordia University Concordia University (French: ''Université Concordia'') is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the th ...

in Montreal. Murray relocated to London, England in 2001.

Career

Murray firstly, interned at

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after winning the Jane Mussett Bursary for aspiring fashion journalists in 2000. Murray later pursued architectural journalism, joining the

in 2007 and was named Editor in 2010. While at the Architects' Journal, she founded the

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which revived the

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as a career achievement award for women in architecture. Murray presented the prize to the late

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in 2012. Murray was appointed Editor of the Architectural Review in 2015 and later oversaw both architecture titles as Editor-in-Chief of the

and

from 2016-2018. After her departure in 2018, Murray founded The Developer and the

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, publishing the first edition of The Developer magazine in March 2019 and hosting the first

conference in July at Tobacco Dock in East London.

References

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