Gavin Mark Stamp was a British writer, television presenter and architectural historian.
14 Facts About Gavin Stamp
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Gavin Stamp's career was one of largely independent journalism, writing, lecturing and polemic on architectural topics.
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Gavin Stamp regularly contributed essays on architecture to the fine arts and collector's magazine Apollo.
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Gavin Stamp bought and restored a terrace house that Alexander "Greek" Thomson designed for a local builder in Moray Place, Glasgow.
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Gavin Stamp was a long-standing trustee and for a time chairman of the Twentieth Century Society, a registered charity which promotes the appreciation of modern architecture and the conservation of Britain's architectural heritage.
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Gavin Stamp was active in the Victorian Society in various capacities over five decades.
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Gavin Stamp lent his support as lecturer, journalist and lobbyist to a wide range of architectural conservation causes on behalf of buildings in many styles, especially those he felt were "worthy but unpopular causes".
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Gavin Stamp presented a number of programmes about architecture for Channel 5.
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In 2007 he presented a five-part architectural travel series Gavin Stamp's Orient Express, in which he travelled by train along the original Orient Express route, stopping off to look at architecture and to see how the history of Eastern Europe is told in its buildings.
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Gavin Stamp was the son of Norah and Barry Gavin Stamp.
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Gavin Stamp was married to Alexandra Artley from 1982 until 2007.
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Gavin Stamp married his second wife, biographer and cultural historian Rosemary Hill, on 10 April 2014.
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Gavin Stamp was a life-long member of the Church of England and loved its traditional forms of liturgy and architecture.
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Gavin Stamp was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent a course of chemotherapy in 2017.