Education
King"s College London.
King"s College London.
She was Deputy Editor at the Royal Institute of British Architects Journal before becoming Editor of leading design magazine Blueprint, from 2004 to 2010. She is a member design juries including the Royal Institute of British Architects Architecture Awards. The Doctorate&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 (Laurence King, 2002) and In Defence of the Dome (Applied Science International, 1999). Richardson is currently studying for her Master of Arts 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 United Kingdom 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.
She is a Company-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.
