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
“No hiding” from environmental impact of trade fairs say designers at Salone del Mobile
Ten houses with outdoor showers for connecting with nature
City cars could become smaller thanks to electrification says Peugeot head of concepts
Gender pay gap worsens at biggest UK architecture studios
Dezeen’s top five houses of March 2023
Eight bedrooms featuring regal four-poster beds
Are mass-timber buildings a fire safety risk?
“Forests could be at the heart of our society again” says Joe Giddings
“Rebuilding under missiles is bold but we can’t afford to wait” say Ukrainian architects
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Ten residential interiors that make the most of narrow spaces
Dezeen survey finds 84 per cent of UK architecture studios want to reverse Brexit “catastrophe”
Twelve interviews you should read this Earth Day
Over 900 Grenfell fire victims reach civil settlement
Ten significant mass-timber buildings that changed the way we think about wood
Curtains for minimalism as John Pawson goes maximalist
Mass timber “definitely not the right way to go” says Benjamin Kromoser
Fire safety expert “extremely concerned” about mass-timber buildings
BTZ laboratory at TU Graz was the early home of mass-timber research
Eight residential interiors with sociable split-level living areas
“Architects may become a thing of the past” says ChatGPT
“An architect who only designs buildings is like a doctor who only prescribes paracetamol” says ProxyAddress founder
