Owen Hopkins is a curator and writer. He is Director of the Farrell Centre at Newcastle University – a public centre for architecture and cities which he has led through its opening in April 2023. He was part of the UK-Kenya curatorial team for the British Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, which was awarded a 'Special Mention’ for National Participation by La Biennale. Prior to joining the Farrell Centre, he was Senior Curator at Sir John Soane’s Museum and before that Architecture Programme Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts. Across these roles he has curated numerous acclaimed exhibitions and has written or edited over twenty books, journals and other publications. He is a frequent commentator on architecture in the press, on radio and TV and writes regularly for a range of media