Dr Piers Taylor is a renowned award-winning architect, broadcaster and academic. Piers co-presented two series of The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes with Caroline Quentin for BBC Two. He also presented three series of The House that £100k Built (also BBC Two), which demonstrates to self-builders how to do more with less. Piers also presented the hit spin-off series, Tricks of the Trade and The Final Fix; and he fronted Britain’s Most Spectacular Backyard Builds (BBC Two). He was also crowned the winner of Celebrity Mastermind in December 2016; his specialist subject was Bob Dylan. Piers has been called ‘One of the brightest architects in the profession’ and has designed several seminal buildings, including the RIBA Award Winning ‘Room 13’, the...
Dr Piers Taylor is a renowned award-winning architect, broadcaster and academic.
Piers co-presented two series of The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes with Caroline Quentin for BBC Two. He also presented three series of The House that £100k Built (also BBC Two), which demonstrates to self-builders how to do more with less. Piers also presented the hit spin-off series, Tricks of the Trade and The Final Fix; and he fronted Britain’s Most Spectacular Backyard Builds (BBC Two). He was also crowned the winner of Celebrity Mastermind in December 2016; his specialist subject was Bob Dylan.
Piers has been called ‘One of the brightest architects in the profession’ and has designed several seminal buildings, including the RIBA Award Winning ‘Room 13’, the multiple award winning large mixed use project East Quay, Watchet and the house ‘Moonshine’ which won the AJ Small Project Award. His built work has been published extensively and internationally, and typically pushes boundaries in terms of cost, technique and process. He is known for his resourceful ‘thinking outside of the box’ and his challenging of mainstream convention in architecture and in education.
He has founded two architectural practices – Mitchell Taylor Workshop and Invisible Studio. He is a former Design Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and a Studio Master at London’s Architectural Association, and sits on the Southwest Design Review Panel.
Invisible Studio’s Wolfson Tree Management Centre for Westonbirt Arboretum recently won 3 RIBA Awards, a National RIBA Award, the RIBA Sustainability Award and the RIBA client of the year Award, as indeed did East Quay.
He is widely engaged in several topical architectural issues and contributes regularly to many architectural journals including the Architects’ Journal. He has also written for Blueprint, Building Design and the Architectural Review.
Piers is married with four children and lives in a self-built house in a 100-acre woodland near Bath.
