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
“We want to be a global furniture brand, but not in the Hay or Muuto or Vitra area of expensiveness” says Omhu CEO
How a Facebook post led to the resurrection of a space-age architectural icon
Groninger Museum “deserves to be more famous” says artistic director Roos Gortzak
Six small but cool electric cars
“There has not been cultural change as a result of Grenfell” says ARB CEO Hugh Simpson
Ten viewpoints where dramatic architecture rivals the landscape
Six installations from the inaugural Global Design Forum Istanbul
Waugh Thistleton builds “simple and repetitive” timber pavilion on grounds of historic Istanbul palace
Five innovative products designed to help with the housework
Smaller-wheeled Lime bike aims to “get more people cycling”
Dezeen’s top five houses of February 2026
“They’ll be flying in our baby” says Artemis II spaceship’s architect
Four products that Dyson successfully revolutionised, and four it didn’t
Finnish company launches “world’s most carbon-storing building material”
Foster + Partners found not guilty over window fall death
All 23 stadiums set to host the 2030 World Cup
Why did Gaudí not have more of an impact on global architecture?
“An architectural style has emerged that I’m calling ‘gentleism'”
Designers have “signed away all of our ideas” to Instagram says Tom Dixon
The race to create the ultimate running super shoe
“We have to grow up as an industry” says Reinier de Graaf
Nine Jony Ive designs that aren’t Apple products
