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Edwin Heathcote is an architect, designer and writer and has been Architecture and Design critic for the Financial Times since 1999. He has worked as a journalist and editor in the UK and in Hungary and had an architectural practice in London.
He has written a stack of books, on subjects ranging from the architecture of death to London caffs. He is a founder and director of hardware manufacturer ize, for which he also designs and consults.
He is a contributing editor for Icon Magazine, is on the editorial board of Architectural Design and is a trustee of architectural education charity Open House.
He lives and works in London and is married with two young daughters.
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Our domestic altar
The notion that the fireplace forms the ‘focus’ of the domestic interior is more profound than we might realise. It is as close as the secular dwelling comes to a shrine, says Edwin Heathcote
Dallas’s new cultural buildings
Edwin Heathcoate wonders if the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre and the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House can help animate the cultural life of this ‘epicentre of the generic’
David Chipperfield’s first UK exhibition
The Stirling Prize winner’s disappointment in the UK shows the lack of a serious discussion of architecture, writes Edwin Heathcote
The greening of Arabia
It is easy to snipe at Abu Dhabi’s ambitious, futuristic and slightly absurd plan to build Masdar, the world’s first eco-city, but Edwin Heathcote says it may yet bear dividends for us all
The New Architecture and the Bauhaus
The design recalls an extraordinary time when London became the hesitant home of continental modernism, writes Edwin Heathcote
Worlds of words
As depicted in Antonello da Messina’s painting, the study remains a privileged space even in todays’ homes, a luxury in the midst of the practicalities of everyday life, writes Edwin Heathcote
The Paper Palace
Cy Webb’s wonderfully trashy cover picks up the details of the hard-nosed, pot-boiler set around the urgency, gossip and scandal of Fleet Street, when it was still full of newspapers, writes Edwin Heathcote
Design sidelined
Social housing has, for good and for ill, dominated the history of modern residential design. It created robust yet beautiful buildings – socialist in nature, inventive in style. But its privatisation in the 1980s has stifled further architectural experimentation and expression, writes Edwin Heathcote
Inside some of London’s finest buildings
Open House weekend invites the public into the doors of a quirky collection of buildings ranging from homes and churches to academies and architects’ offices, writes Edwin Heathcote
