Born in London, Deyan Suđic is Yugoslav by origin. He is the chief editor of Domus, the international magazine for architecture and design. He was the Director of the 2002 Architecture Biennial in Venice. He has been the architecture critic for the London Observer since 2000. Having graduated architecture at the University of Edinburgh, he spent four years as the Director of festival in Glasgow 1999: UK city of Architecture and Design. Dejan was the guest professor of design theory at Vienna Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst between 1992 and 1996.

In 1983 he was the founder and editor of a Blueprint magazine, which established new standards, covering wide specter of designers discipline – from architecture to graphics and fashion Deyan Suđić worked as a custodian of exhibitions in area of architecture: At the Royal Academy of Art in London, Museum of Louisiana, Copenhagen (the subject of design and national identity), British Museum in London (where the work of Norman Foster were exhibited), Institute of Contemporary Art in London (the subject: Modern chair) and Mclellan gallery in Glasgow (the subject: Architecture and democracy). He published the following books: John Pawson: Works (2000), Ron Arad (1999) and The Hundred Mile City (1992).