Shropshire Architect voted twitter favourite
A local architect is one of the best to follow on twitter, in a chart complied and judged by a leading national architecture publication.
The award winning Building Design magazine has a circulation of around 23,000 and is published weekly, online and in print. It holds regular awards including architect of the year and the latest top 10 is part of a number of twitter charts for the built environment including heritage, sustainability and education.
Shropshire architect Matthew Franklin, owner of mbf DESIGN, has been placed in the top ten best architects to follow on twitter, the most keenly awaited of the Building Design twitter charts and according to the magazine the hardest to compile. They purposely don’t order the group as a result of its diversity from internationally renowned architects to smaller rural practices.
Building Design state that to be in the top ten they chose architects that ‘were a good combination of entertaining, influential, responsive, engaging and knowledgeable’. Matthew Franklin is delighted to be in the list and very pleased to be recognised for his use of twitter, ‘I’m keen to make architecture more accessible and I find twitter is a great way for people to learn and build relationships in a relaxed format’.
This is the third recent accolade mbf DESIGN has received for its work on twitter, including a runner up in ‘best use of twitter’ for Ask The Architect? a free design Q&A clinic run by Matthew, as well as a previous list in the top 30 best architectural tweeters.
You can follow Matthew on @ShropsArchitect and you can find out more about the building design top 10 lists here. (free login required)
