Nat Barker
Nat is the features editor of Dezeen.
He qualified as an NCTJ Gold Standard journalist in 2016 and spent five years working for trade magazine Inside Housing. He has also presented a podcast called Fintech Mix.
Nat was named New Journalist of the Year at the IBP Awards in 2017 and Journalist of the Year at the same event in 2018. He was included on PPA's 30 Under 30 list of rising stars in the published media industry in 2020. In 2024, he won Best Specialist Writer at the BSME Talent Awards. In 2025, he was named Architectural Journalist of the Year at the IBP Awards.
Stories by Nat Barker
“I don’t want to make crazy buildings” says Junya Ishigami
Giant novelty structures at Disney hotel captured in Arnau Rovira Vidal photos
RIBA Royal Gold Medal award was “brave move” says Yasmeen Lari
Ten buried buildings that hide their forms below ground
Eight basement apartments that are subterranean sanctuaries
Lazerian builds racing car entirely from electronic waste
Generative AI boom “could come to a fairly swift end”
Architecture bodies responding to “real risks” of AI
Eight interiors that embrace the principles of wabi-sabi
RIBA names best reuse architecture projects of 2023
Fame “forces you to constantly reflect on your impact and motivation” says Bjarke Ingels
Design, Interrupted explores how “everyday AI” is restricting creativity
We Design Beirut postponed due to Israel-Gaza conflict
Le Corbusier responsible for architecture’s “global blandemic” says Thomas Heatherwick
Global South delegates blocked from attending UIA World Congress of Architects
Pritzker “has given me courage” says Diébédo Francis Kéré
AI model by Aalto University team can predict how to prevent wildfires
AI exposes designers and architects to copyright complications say experts
Ten AI companies that architects and designers need to know
Will architects really lose their jobs to AI?
Ten architecture studios that designed their own office buildings
Elon Musk launches xAI startup “to understand reality”
