Edwin Heathcote

London

Architecture and Design Critic at Financial Times

Contributor at The Architectural Review

Architecture and design critic @ft Author, designer and editor of @Reading_design Latest book: ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’.

Articles

This year’s Serpentine Pavilion is extravagant and impressive — but where’s the fun?

4 days ago | ft.com | Edwin Heathcote

Twenty-five years ago, Zaha Hadid designed a tent outside the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Kensington Gardens.
V&A East Storehouse is a genuinely radical new museum

1 week ago | ft.com | Edwin Heathcote

It’s difficult to imagine an architecture further from the Victoria and Albert Museum’s South Kensington home than that of its new venue,...
Celibate chic: why do we continue to fetishise Shaker design?

1 week ago | ft.com | Edwin Heathcote

Every generation stages its own Shaker design revival.
Quito rising: the flashy new face of Ecuador’s capital

1 week ago | ft.com | Edwin Heathcote

Two of the first places ever listed as Unesco World Heritage sites were, perhaps surprisingly, both in Ecuador; the Galápagos Islands and...
Fenix — Rotterdam’s museum of migration has movement at its heart

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Edwin Heathcote

When Dutch seamen went on strike in 1911, Rotterdam’s shipping companies brought in Chinese labourers who were willing to strike-break...
Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 — welcome to the age of adaptation

3 weeks ago | ft.com | Edwin Heathcote

The entrance to this year’s Venice Biennale of Architecture is via a dark, hot hall in which air-conditioning units are suspended,...
Trump’s casino rococo White House and the politics of ornamentation

3 weeks ago | ft.com | Edwin Heathcote

It was a curious little snippet of investigative journalism, though from an unusual direction.
The Ikea dream may be dimming for the young

1 month ago | ft.com | Edwin Heathcote

The writer is the FT’s architecture and design criticOxford Street and its neighbourhood were once the heart of London’s furniture retail.
What is Bauhaus? Everything you need to know

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Edwin Heathcote

The cover of the 1919 Bauhaus Manifesto featured an expressionist woodcut of a Gothic cathedral with dazzling stars shooting beams from its towers. Drawn by Bauhaus founder architect Walter Gropius, the manifesto kicked off with the phrase ‘The ultimate goal of all art is the building.'Yet the Bauhaus, which has come to represent more than anything a style of stripped, modernist, functional architecture, did not initially even have an architecture department.
What does chair obsessive Deyan Sudjic sit on at home?

1 month ago | ft.com | Edwin Heathcote

If the ground floor of Deyan Sudjic’s north London house looks a little bare – all white walls, stripped floors, high ceilings and a...