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Phineas Harper

Phineas Harper is a design and architecture critic based in London. They were previously chief executive of Open City and curator of the 2019 Olso Architecture Triennale, as well as deputy director of the Architecture Foundation and deputy editor of the Architectural Review. In 2017 they co-founded New Architecture Writers, a programme for aspiring design critics from under-represented backgrounds.

Stories by Phineas Harper

“Architecture schools are the punching bags of the industry”
Architecture Opinion

“Architecture schools are the punching bags of the industry”

“Architects are not just relaxed about cultural appropriation, we’re experts”
Architecture Opinion

“Architects are not just relaxed about cultural appropriation, we’re experts”

“Call us dull, call us sellouts, call us gentrifiers – just don’t call us copycats”
Architecture Opinion

“Call us dull, call us sellouts, call us gentrifiers – just don’t call us copycats”

“To confront populism, all architects should become classicists”
Architecture Opinion

“To confront populism, all architects should become classicists”

Patrik Schumacher portrait
Architecture Opinion

“It is time to stop listening to Patrik Schumacher”

“Something is rotten when my trainers are more customised than my funeral”
Architecture Opinion

“Something is rotten when my trainers are more customised than my funeral”

“Middle-class guilt is weaponised to keep architectural labourers from demanding reform”
Architecture Opinion

“Middle-class guilt is weaponised to keep architectural labourers from demanding reform”

Robert E Lee statue, Charlottesville
Architecture Opinion

“The architectural world seems to be responding to Charlottesville with deafening silence”

“Why do architects dictate children’s play so stringently?”
Architecture Opinion

“Why do architects dictate children’s play so stringently?”

“Poverty should never be an Instagram filter”
Architecture Opinion

“Poverty should never be an Instagram filter”

Phineas Harper on Britain's housing crisis
Architecture Opinion

“The housing crisis isn’t a crisis, it’s a design project”

Is this year’s Stirling Prize winner a worthy victor?

Is this year’s Stirling Prize winner a worthy victor?

16 October
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