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
Last chance to tell Dezeen about your experience of working in architecture and design
How the superyacht industry is approaching sustainability
Photos reveal Zaha Hadid Architects’ completed Mercury Tower in Malta
Dead Mall Walking captures the “kenopsia” of fading shopping centres
Trauma of Ukraine war “was crucial for me as an architect” says Tallinn Architecture Biennale curator Anhelina Starkova
Tell Dezeen about your experience of working in architecture and design
Lotus unveils Theory 1 concept car as “design manifesto” for the future
Eight interiors that show the versatility of futons and daybeds
Grenfell Tower Inquiry concludes that architect “bears a very significant degree of responsibility”
One Za’abeel voted best skyscraper of the past year by Dezeen readers
“We don’t want to develop like Europe” says Suriname’s architect minister
Eight living rooms dominated by giant sofas
Survey reveals average salaries at UK architecture studios
Dezeen’s top five houses of October 2024
Tallinn bus shelter “an experimental fragment” built from reclaimed materials
Seven transparent bathrooms for households who share everything
Eero Saarinen’s Tulip table has “a kind of dishonesty to it”
Nine houses with gloriously impractical features
Why UK architecture’s gender pay gap isn’t improving
“The shadow of Grenfell Tower’s burnt-out husk will follow the refurbishment architect forever”
Vote for your favourite skyscraper from the past year!
Ten recently completed unusual Indian houses
