Harriet Thorpe
Harriet Thorpe is a writer, journalist and editor covering architecture, design and culture, with particular interest in sustainability, 20th-century architecture and community. After studying History of Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and Journalism at City University in London, she developed her interest in architecture working at Wallpaper* magazine and today contributes to Wallpaper*, The World of Interiors and Icon magazine, amongst other titles. She is author of The Sustainable City (2022, Hoxton Mini Press), a book about sustainable architecture in London, and the Modern Cambridge Map (2023, Blue Crow Media), a map of 20th-century architecture in Cambridge, the city where she grew up.
Latest articles by Harriet Thorpe
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Eco-visionaries to the rescue at London’s Royal Academy of Arts
A new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London explores the precarious relationship between humans and nature that has been thrown out of balance by our accumulatively dangerous activities. Architects, artists and designers offer up their unique approaches into a laboratory of prototypes, concepts and emotive pieces that break down headlines into experiences.
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Fear and love: the Design Museum taps a fractious design landscape
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Amanda Levete’s V&A extension weaves seamlessly into the historic heritage of the museum
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Architects explore urbanism, heritage and power at Deoksugung Palace in Seoul
‘Architecture and Heritage: Unearthing Future’ organised by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul unites imaginative installations by five international architects at the historic Deoksugung Palace
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Wes Anderson’s set design for the Isle of Dogs goes on show in London
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Seratech’s innovative sustainable cement wins Obel award 2022
The 2022 Obel Award goes to Seratech’s carbon-neutral composite cement
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Conversation piece: Hans Josephsohn and Peter Märkli meet at Hauser & Wirth
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Forces at play: SOM’s Bill Baker makes structural engineering fun
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Lisbon Triennale connects architecture to culture through classification
The fifth Lisbon Triennale promises five exhibitions, 12 special projects and plenty of architectural plans to get lost in. Rich in historical inquiry and appreciation, materials and layers, it confirms the power of architecture within culture, and suggests how classification of the past can play a powerful role in shaping the future of architecture.
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Davide Macullo’s artistic timber house in the Swiss Alps
In a small village in Switzerland architect Davide Macullo has created an artistic response to the landscape through architecture with a timber house, a new addition to his Swisshouse series of houses in the Calanca Valley
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What to see at Open House London 2018
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Swiss architect Mario Botta’s sacred buildings
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The unlikely synchronicity between Italian radicalism and Japanese metabolism
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Drawing power: an exhibition of early artworks by Zaha Hadid
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Quirky cabinets frame a curious new collection at Sir John Soane’s museum
A new exhibition at the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London explores the collectable nature of a selection of seemingly obscure contemporary objects within three unique and evocative cabinets designed by architect Mat Barnes
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Balkrishna Doshi exhibition opens at Vitra Design Museum
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Leading female architects in their own words
International Women’s Day 2022 and Women’s History Month: Wallpaper* talks to four leading female architects about dreams, heroines and navigating the architecture world
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Habitat ’67 duplex unit renovated to original conditions by Safdie Architects in Montréal
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The ghosts of Caruso St John: a new show examines 33 unrealised projects
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Architect Johan Sundberg’s tree house hides in Swedish scenery
This private summer retreat in Sweden designed by Lund-based architect Johan Sundberg is submerged into its green surroundings, yet wide open to views of the sea through its sliding glazed facade to the south – it has us dreaming of long days and Scandiavian summers
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Mid-career manifesto: Sir David Adjaye pauses to reflect on his design philosophy
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Japanese and Italian design combine in Chicago office interior by Alvisi Kirimoto
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A house in Zurich questions the aesthetics of digitally-designed architecture
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David Chipperfield takes stock with a monograph documenting 30 years of work
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