David Wild is an architect and writer. He studied architecture at Portsmouth, the Architectural Association in London, then worked for several firms before starting independent practice, teaching, and writing. He entered politics during the Vietnam war, producing and distributing 20,000 NLF flagbags to raise money for medical aid; designed and edited the outside-left architectural magazine ARse (1969–72), and designed the first Big Red Diary (1974). His practice has concentrated on domestic buildings, and his own self-built house in London is his best-known work. His photographs of the USA in the 1960s, taken while working there, have been widely published (Downbeat, Transaction, Paul Oliver’s Story of the blues). He writes critiques and reviews mainly for Architecture Today and Architects’ Journal.