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About

Charlotte Harris is an architect urbanist and educator,  whose work sits at the intersection of design, research, and spatial strategy. She founded Studio Charlotte Harris in 2021, after six years as co-founder of HASA Architects. Her practice views architecture as a form of civic agency, exploring how small, strategic moves can influence long-term trajectories.

Projects are situated within layered contexts where existing fabric, ecologies, and cultural histories are treated not as constraints but as resources. Her work is defined by an incremental approach to regeneration, using temporary occupation, civic programming, and material reuse as tools for collective transformation. Each project works with what is already there, physically, culturally, and ecologically. This approach depends on deep, situated knowledge and long-term engagement, combined with the ability to act with precision and restraint.

Charlotte’s practice operates between the provisional and the permanent. It involves designing with limited resources while committing to generosity, clarity, and public value, embedding participation and care into both process and outcome. Architecture becomes a means to engage broader cultural, social, and environmental narratives, proposing context-led, incremental strategies as alternatives to dominant development models.

Charlotte’s work has been widely recognised, including a RIAI Emerging Award 2025, RIBA London Award 2019 and Stephen Lawrence Prize shortlist. It has been exhibited internationally and featured in The Architectural Review, The Sustainable City, the ‘100 Architects of the Year’ at the Korean Institute of Architecture. 

Alongside practice, Charlotte is an associate lecturer of architecture at London Metropolitan University and at University of East London. She is also engaged in RIBA ‘Guerrilla Tactics’ and Student Mentoring Program and is a member of the RIBA Awards Panel.

Associations

Architects Registration Board (ARB)
Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI)
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
Architecture Foundation
Women in Architecture
Awards

2025 RIAI Emerging Architects Awards Highly Commended 
2024 The British Council "Connections through Culture" Grant
2019 RIBA London Award
2019 Stephen Lawrence Prize Finalist
2019 International Architects of The Year Award
2018 AJ Retrofit Awards Cultural Buildings Finalist
2018 AJ Architecture Awards Small Projects Finalist