(1913-2009) 

Editor during thirty years of the influential London-based magazine Architectural Design (AD), Monica Pidgeon was a key figure in the dissemination of modern architecture after World War II, publishing the work of architects like Le Corbusier, José Luis Sert, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Alison and?Peter Smithson and Richard Buckminster Fuller, aside from attending the foundation of the UIA?(International Union of Architects), taking part in several CIAM?congresses (Congrès International d’Architecture Moderne), and participating actively in the meetings of the group MARS?(Modern Architectural Research). The effects of the economic crisis in the early 1970s caused dramatic budgetary cuts and the magazine took a new slant, so in 1975 Pidgeon decided to resign and accepted an offer to direct the RIBA?Journal, edited by the Royal Institute of British Architects. After her retirement in 1979, Pidgeon launched a personal project, Pidgeon Audio Visual (PAV), which gathers recordings of interviews with architects like Norman?Foster, Richard Rogers, Frank Gehry or Renzo Piano, among others.