This year, Homes for Good welcomes special guest, Charlie Luxton. Charlie will be attending the show on Friday 17th April, and giving a short presentation at the exhibitor evening event to show his support for the sustainable building industry.

Charlie Luxton is an architectural designer and broadcaster. He has an MA in 
architecture from the Royal College of Art and has been working in the field of 
environmental architecture for the past decade. 
 
Since 1996, he's worked on projects including an eco-tourism venture in 
Ethiopia, a house in Tel Aviv and a number of London-based buildings for 
Toh Shimizaki Architects. He helped found the design group Make, which 
developed exhibitions for the RIBA, 100% Design, and the Victoria and Albert 
Museum, before creating Electric Storm for Shell - a renewable energy 
exhibition that included an 88-foot wind turbine on the Southbank, London. 
 
In 2005, Charlie left Make to concentrate on designing beautiful, timeless and sustainable buildings. He is currently working on sustainable restoration of listed houses in Worcestershire and Oxfordshire and acting as a sustainability advisor on a several commercial projects in London and Cyprus.
 
Charlie started making television programs with Modern British Architects for the UK’s Channel Five, and since then he has written and presented more ten television series. These include Not All Bricks and Mortar and Not All Houses are Square for Channel 4, Guerrilla Homes and Bionic Buildings for BBC3, Ice Dreams and Designer of the Year for BBC4, and Restored to Glory, a primetime restoration program for BBC2. Last summer, Charlie took a ten-thousand-mile road trip across the US for an art and architecture series shown in the US on Gallery HD (part of the VOOM network) and Sky Arts in the UK.  
 
Charlie regularly gives lectures about sustainability and architecture for clients as varied as McDonald's, AutoCAD, Grand Designs Live, and Project Taunton. He has also written for several magazines and hosted the Royal Institute of British Architects 2004 Stirling Prize Award for Building of the Year.