Harriet Harriss

Dr. Harriet Harriss (RIBA, PFHEA, Ph.D., FRSA) is an award-winning educator, qualified architect, and the dean of the Pratt Institute School of Architecture. Her teaching, research, and writing focus upon pioneering pedagogic models for design education and exploring the intersectional edge of social justice and climate crisis theories and practices.

Harriss has been recognized as an advocate for diversity and inclusion within design education. Among other honors, she has been recognized by Dezeen as a champion for women in architecture and design. Her book Architects After Architecture (Routledge, 2020) won a Bates Prize for Architectural Media. Her latest books, Greta Magnusson Grossman: Modern Design from Sweden to California (Lund Humphries, 2021), 100 Women Architects (RIBA, forthcoming 2022), Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South (Routledge, forthcoming 2022) and Intersectional Work: The Architecture of the Post-Anthropocene (RIBA, forthcoming 2022) extend her growing expertise in archival activism, climate crisis curriculum, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.