William Harvey

Studio C4a

Emanating from the common ground of art an architecture William Harvey's work explores post-industrial landscapes / climate change heritage; urban mining & circular economies; and resilient community building. Some questions which drive this thinking are: How can an arts practice influence the realms of architecture and vice versa to help us navigate the social, economic and environmental issues of our time? How will we reimagine, reuse and recycle the materials, places and spaces in careful and regenerative ways that are mutually supportive locally and globally?   

Using interdisciplinary thinking and processes, Will explores how the practices of art and architecture meet the questions and themes above to both envision and manifest a more hopeful and ecological future. Essential to his practice is collaboration with others, who share a commitment to evolve our spatial and material cultures to elevate our relationship with human and non-human ecologies.  

William Harvey: Aumbry Cathedral

William Harvey: Off-The-Shelf School

William Harvey: Llani Ideas Market

William Harvey: House of the Wild

Will's completed projects / publications include:  Power With the People, Touchstone, Welsh Architecture Journal (2022); Privacy Tectonics (design, making & install), with collaborator Ryan Boultbee, curator Candice Jacobs & Broadway Gallery's Near Now, Nottingham (2022); Framework-for-Practice, with collaborator Ryan Boultbee & Broadway Gallery's Near Now, Nottingham (2022); A Remembered Belonging, Group show with Chaos Magic, The Curious Tower, Nottingham (2022); The Underneath, Youth Landscapers Collective, National Forest + Timber Festival, Leicestershire (2022); Nourishment Programme (Graphic Tapestry), Commission by Primary (2021 -2022); Mr Arkwright (design, material & install), for artist Jo Fairfax at Cromford Mills and Derby Museum of Making, Derbyshire (2018-2019).   Will has a BA Hons in Architecture & Planning (RIBA Part I) from the University of the West of England, Bristol (2010 -2014) and a Masters in Architecture (RIBA Part II equivalent) from the Centre for Alternative Technology, Machylleth (2019-2022).   Will is currently working on a variety of projects at varying scales in Nottingham, the East Midlands and the UK.