Kevin McCloud is best known for the internationally acclaimed, Bafta award-winning series Grand Designs which has been running on Channel 4 for 25 years. It is now shown around the world along with spin-off series including Grand Designs: The Street and Grand Designs: House of the Year. Grand Designs has grown to encompass Grand Designs Magazine and live consumer event Grand Designs Live.

Kevin recently joined forces with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Mary Portas to challenge the government’s commitment to climate change policies for Channel 4’s The Great Climate Fight. Kevin’s other TV work includes two series of Man-Made Home, Kevin’s Supersized Salvage and Kevin McCloud’s Escape To The Wild, as well as his four part Grand Tour of Europe.
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Kevin has written several books on design and champions sustainable development, context, the historic environment, and ecological construction. He studied History of Art and Architecture at Cambridge, is an Honorary Fellow of both the RIBA and the Society of Light and Lighting, a fellow of WWF and a recalcitrant patron of a handful of organizations. His two ambitions remain to entertain and to make the built environment better – and consequently ‘make people feel better’.

He was awarded an MBE in 2014 for his services to architecture.

Foreword by John Lonsdale
Foreword by Daisy Goodwin

1999
Water Tower Conversion – Amersham
Straw Bale House – Islington
Hedgehog Co-op – Brighton

2001
Cruciform – Lambourn
Barn Conversion – South Devon

2003
Rustic – Sussex
Waterworks – Chesterfield

2004
Beach House – Hastings
Norwegian Longhouse – Glasgow

2005
Stealth House – Peckham
White House on a Hill – Belfast

2006
Cedar-clad Box – Stirling
Water Tower – Ashford

2007
Two Timber Houses – London
Straw Bale Roundhouse – Cambridgeshire

2008
Lime Kiln House – Midlothian
Sugar Cube – Bristol

2009
Vaulted Arch House – Weald of Kent
Apprentice Store – Somerset

2010
Recycled Bungalow – Isle of Wight
Passive House – Cotswolds

2011
Artists’ Barn – Braintree
House in the Hills – Herefordshire

2012
Glass House – Brixton
Artists’ Muse – Skye

2013
Flint Farm – Newbury
Hangar House – Strathaven

2014
Container House – County Derry
Engineered Timber House – North Cornwall

2015
Riverside Shed – South Downs
Stilt House – East Sussex

2016
Tree House – Gloucestershire
Shadow Barn – Horsham

2017
Extruded Barn – County Down
Earth-sheltered House – Peak District

2018
Concrete House – Lewes
Expedient House – Leominster

2019
Watershed – Hull
Lighthouse – North Devon

2021
Pond House – Chichester
Self-heating House – Bletchley
Triangle House – Billingshurst
Gardener’s Bothy – Kinross

2022
Spacesaver – Sydenham Hill
Scandi Villa – South Manchester

2023
House in the Woods – South Herefordshire
Passive House Premium – North Cotswolds

Honourable Mentions
2003: Threshing Barn –Surrey
2004: German Kit House – Esher
2005: Modernisation of Elizabethan Farmhouse –Gloucester
2006: Farmhouse Chalet Renovation – Les Gets, France
2007: Gentrified Fourteenth-century Peel Tower –Yorkshire
2008: Contemporary Family House – Bath
2009: Twenty-first-century Farmhouse –Marlborough
2010: Modest Contemporary Home –Woodbridge
2011: Hole in theWall –Kensington
2012: Camden Workshop –Camden
2013: Cob House –East Devon
2014: Cliff Top House –North Wales
2015: Cow Shed – South Somerset
2016: Woodland House – Essex
2017: Box House – East London
2018: Twins Houses – Sheffield
2019: Round House –Lincolnshire
2021: Cemetery Lodge – South West London
2021: Barn Conversion – Sevenoaks
2022: Modular House – Tunbridge Wells
2023: Tree House – Scunthorpe

Afterword by Ned Williams
Episode List
Acknowledgements
Index
Picture Credits