Nick Barley
Director, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
www.thelighthouse.co.uk

Nick Barley began his career with architectural publishers Wordsearch as deputy publisher and, from 1994, publisher of a stable of publications including Blueprint, Eye, Design Review, Tate Magazine, Perspectives, and Reportage. Whilst publisher of Blueprint he commissioned the first ever British building from Zaha Hadid - the Blueprint Pavilion for the "Interbuild" Trade exhibition, which was awarded the 'Best Building of 1995' Award by the Independent on Sunday.

In 1998 he set up August Publications, and through this company has since published and edited a series of ground breaking books on architecture including the original book on The Lighthouse (published as part of Glasgow 1999); a book on Benson + Forsyth's Museum of Scotland; Rick Poynor's Obey the Giant, a series of books on urbanism including Breathing Cities: Impossible Worlds; City Levels and Experiments in Architecture and, most recently, the catalogue for the 2006 London Architecture Biennale.

As a curator and exhibition manager Nick Barley has project managed and designed a number of keynote exhibitions including Citroen DS: La Deesse (Design Museum 1991); Lost and Found (international touring exhibition on Design 2000) and Hometime, a British Council (Design department) exhibition that toured to China in 2003.

Barley has twice been on the Advisory Group for the UK wide Architecture Week events; he chaired the conference in Dundee, which coincided with the opening of Gehry's Maggie's Centre, at which Frank Gehry was the keynote speaker, and last year chaired the BRE conference at the Design Show in Glasgow.

Nick Barley is currently editor of The List, Scotland's bi-weekly "what's on" magazine, for which work he was named Editor of the Year in the PPA Scotland Magazine Awards in 2005. Since January 2007 he has been Director of the Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City.