TOY, Maggie 1964-

PERSONAL: Born December 29, 1964, in Rugby, England; daughter of Mark (a lecturer in physics) and Pat (a radiographer) Toy; partner of Tim Forster (a criminal barrister); children: Hector Cavanagh. Ethnicity: "White." Education: Portsmouth Polytechnic, B.A. (with honors), 1986, postgraduate diploma, 1989. Hobbies and other interests: Designing and sewing wedding, bridesmaid, and ball dresses; opera, music, theater, cinema, aerobics, cycling, swimming, squash.

ADDRESSES: Home and Office—60 Torbay Rd., London NW6 7DZ, England. E-mail—maggietoy@ tiscali.co.uk.

CAREER: Moxham Clark Partnership (chartered architects), Manchester, England, architectural assistant, 1982; Derek Arend Associates (chartered architects), London, England, architectural assistant, 1986-87; Academy Group Ltd., London, assistant, 1988, deputy editor, 1989-92, commissioning editor and managing editor, 1993-97, senior publishing editor, 1997-2002; freelance writer, 2002—.

WRITINGS:

(With Andreas Papadakis) Deconstruction: A Pocket Guide, 1990.

(Editor) The Periphery, Architectural Design (London, England), 1991.

(Editor, with Andreas Papadakis and Geoffrey Broadbent) Free Spirit in Architecture, 1992.

Los Angeles, 1994.

(Editor) Architecture and Film, Academy Editions (London, England), 1994.

(Editor) New Towns, Academy Editions (London, England), 1994. (Editor, with Ruth Rosenthal) Building Sights, Academy Editions (London, England), 1995.

(Editor) Architecture and Water, Academy Editions (London, England), 1995.

(Editor, with Iona Spens and Stephen Watt) British Architects in Exile, Academy Editions (London, England), 1995.

(Editor, with Martin Pearce) Educating Architects, 1995.

(Editor) Beyond the Revolution: The Architecture of Eastern Europe, Academy Editions (London, England), 1996.

Practically Minimal: Simply Beautiful Solutions for Modern Living, Thames & Hudson (New York, NY), 2000.

The Female Architect, Watson-Guptill (New York, NY), 2000.

(Editor) The Architect: Women in Contemporary Architecture, Watson-Guptill (New York, NY), 2001.

Contributor of articles and reviews to architecture journals. Architectural Design, house editor, 1989-92, editor, 1993—.

SIDELIGHTS: Maggie Toy once told CA: "I was trained as an architect. After working as one for a little time, I moved into publishing architectural books. After some years as the commissioning editor for Academy Group and editor of Architectural Design, I began to see many opportunities for writing and publishing books of my own.

"My primary motivation is to bring my architectural understanding and fascination to a broader audience and to provide information about the best way to educate architects. I have always felt this is an area of desperate need!"