VICKY RICHARDSON

Vicky Richardson is a curator, WRITER, AND educator.

She was Director of Architecture, Design and Fashion at the British Council and Commissioner of the British Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale from 2010 to 2016. Vicky is an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA and a Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London where she runs the Interior Design Platform on Urbanism. She was previously Associate Director of London School of Architecture and Honorary Treasurer of the Architectural Association. Vicky began her career as a journalist and was Editor of the design magazine Blueprint from 2004-2010.

Vicky’s interest is in how architecture and design practice connects with other art forms to express a breadth of vision that can appeal across ages and social groups, and provide a different perspective on life.  She feels that creating meaningful connections internationally can inspire and inform practice, an extension of her experience at the British Council where encouraging cross-fertilisation of ideas was core.

Vicky says: "I’m interested in supporting new forms of international collaboration and solidarity. I’ve always come at architecture and design from the point of view of its ability to express ideas and reflect the collective will of society, and I want to put that at the heart of Inter. Working internationally, I enjoyed the fact that architecture and art tend to be more closely aligned in many parts of the world.”