Phineas Harper, Chief Executive of Open City and Open House Worldwide
Phineas Harper is Chief Executive of Open City and Open House Worldwide, and a columnist at Dezeen. They curated the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale on the architecture of degrowth in collaboration with engineers Interrobang and geographer Cecilie Sachs Olsen, and curated the 19th Architecture Prize of the Land Steiermark. Alongside writing, their work spans kinetic sculpture, film and print making, and has been exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, the Architecture Biennale in Venice and the London School of Economics. Between 2015 and 2020, Phineas was deputy director of the Architecture Foundation in London establishing the New Architecture Writers programme in collaboration with the historian Tom Wilkinson, and the architecture and stand-up comedy society Turncoats in collaboration with Robert Mull and Smith Mordak.
