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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BIG's prefab modular residence in Copenhagen is a template for affordable living
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From hipster to high end, the 10 Chicago hotels to check into
Chicago is a-whirl with a burst of fresh hotels, from hipster to high-end, that have been springing up across The Windy City from the Gold Coast all the way to Wicker Park. Take a look at our pick of the best Chicago hotels to check into right now.
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The architects who built Palm Springs: E. Stewart Williams
Most influential in the realm of public and cultural life, Williams’ (1909-2005) legacy can be seen all over town. He’s the architect behind the Palm Springs Art Museum (1976) and the Santa Fe Federal Savings & Loan building (1960) and the Aerial Tramway Station (1963) – a refuge for hikers and wildlife lovers, 2,600m above the town in the San Jacinto Mountains
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Home proud: surveying the work of African architect Francis Kéré
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RIBA Stirling Prize 2018 shortlist for the UK’s best building is revealed
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UK’s best buildings announced by 2019 RIBA National Awards
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Paradigm shift: the MAAT’s inaugural exhibition debates a new world order
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Inside Europe's modernist estates and their distinct cultures
Stefi Orazi welcomes readers inside her book Modernist Estates Europe, where she speaks to residents about daily life inside these 20th-century domestic experiments
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Cultural reef: organic forms abound at the National Taichung Theater
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LA Design Festival 2018: the Wallpaper* guide to the unmissable events
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Design Museum London invites you to move to Mars
Moving to Mars opens at Design Museum London, aiming to answer some of the big questions around moving to a different planet
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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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