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Tony Chapman is a writer and film-maker.  In 2011 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects having run their architectural awards programme for 20 years. He has published 18 books on the subject, including The RIBA Stirling Prize : 20, published by Merrell in October 2016; a children’s book on landmark buildings for Quarto;  and has written an architectural thriller. He is currently working with Swiss architect Peter Zumthor on his latest book. He contributes to The Architects’ Journal and The RIBA Journal.

In his 20 years in broadcasting he made a number of films for the BBC about architecture and the environment, including the Modernists’ riposte to the Prince of Wales’s Visions of Britain. He had subsequently made films about many of the world’s top architects including James Stirling, Alvaro Siza, Oscar Niemeyer, David Chipperfield, Peter Zumthor and O’Donnell + Tuomey, each of which features penetrating and extensive interviews.

He is a member of the RIBA’s Awards Group which oversees and judges all the institute’s awards, which involve visits to buildings wherever they are in the world. He set up its newest prize, the RIBA International Prize, the first winner of which will be announced in December 2016.

As well as organizing awards, since becoming an RIBA Honorary Fellow, he has helped judge many of them, including the RIBA Awards, the Manser Medal (now RIBA House of the Year), the RIBA Lubetkin Prize, The RIBA International Prize, the Mies van der Rohe Prize for European Contemporary Architecture and the AJ Small Project Awards, as well as awards for sustainability, housing and conservation.

He is looking to make his writing, film-making and critical /judging talents available to anyone in the world of architecture and beyond.