Vicky Richardson
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Vicky Richardson is Director of Architecture, Design and Fashion at the British Council, UK's international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations.
Richardson studied architecture at the University of Westminster after a foundation in art at Central St Martins. She was Deputy Editor at the RIBA Journal before becoming Editor of leading design magazine Blueprint, from 2004 to 2010.
She is a Co-Director of the London Festival of Architecture and a member of the London Mayor’s Cultural Strategy Group, which advises on the British capital’s culture policy. She is a member design juries including the RIBA Architecture Awards; the D&AD Awards and the Architect of the Year Awards.
She is a visiting critic at design and architecture schools, and writes about architecture and design for a variety of publications, as well as the British Council design blog, Back of the Envelope. Richardson's books include New Vernacular Architecture[1] (Laurence King, 2002) and In Defence of the Dome (ASI, 1999). Richardson is currently studying for her MA in Early Modern History at King’s College London.
In 2014 she was nominated as one of Debrett’s 500, as one of 20 most influential people in British architecture.
Vicky’s role at the British Council includes overseeing projects in London and around the world. She is also responsible for commissioning the British Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale.
The 2014 exhibition, curated by Sam Jacob, from UK architecture practice FAT and Wouter Vanstiphout, from Crimson Architectural Historians, is entitled A Clockwork Jerusalem and seeks to explore the culture and products of British modernity as an architectural project and as a wider cultural experience.