Place of birth: Westcliff-on-Sea, England

Parentage: son of Sir Graham Cunningham and Marjorie Cunningham (neé Harris)

Family: married Sandra Lynne Cunningham

Education: BArch (Hons), Architecture, University of Liverpool 1997

Career: Allen Cunningham is an architect who was in practice with Marcel Breuer in New York and Paris, Sir Leslie Martin in Cambridge, Llewelyn-Davies and Weeks in London, UK and Canberra, Australia. He was Head of Architecture at PCL (now the University of Westminster) and Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster from 1995 until 2000. He is the founder and co-editor of The Journal of Architecture (see url below).

Honours and awards: Sikorsky Prize

Publications include: Modern Movement Heritage (editor) 1998; numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: 38 rue de l'Engin, 24500 Eymet, France; Tel: +33 (0)5-53-74-29-73; Email: cunning@wanadoo.fr ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13602365.html .