Douglas Murphy is a writer and architect based in London. He is the author of the booksLast Futures(Verso, 2016), a cultural history of the radical architecture of the 1960s and 70s, andThe Architecture of Failure(Zero, 2012), which told the story of 19th centuryiron & glass architecture and its long influence on modernist culture. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art, and is currently Architecture Correspondent atIconmagazine. He writes for a wide range of publications on architecture, fine art and photography, and lectures widely.