Kevin McCloud is a designer, presenter and author. With a family background in engineering, a degree in the history of art and architecture and experience as a theatre designer, he brings many different perspectives to the Grand Designs series. Kevin has written and presented every series of Grand Designs, plus one of Grand Designs Indoors. "I went to Cambridge to take a degree in languages, which quickly changed to philosophy, then finally to the history of art and architecture" Not just a lighting designer it would seem eh!