Ariane Lourie Harrison

Ariane Lourie Harrison, PhD, AIA is a founding partner of Harrison Atelier (HAT) and a registered architect in New York State. She is a lecturer at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania since 2022 in the MSD-AAD program. She has taught at the Yale School of Architecture since 2006 and collaborates with the Yale Center for Ecosystems and Architecture.

HAT’s work on multi-species design has been internationally recognized, selected for the Barcelona Architecture Festival (2023), and awarded for Hempcrete Habitats (2022 Global Architecture and Design Award) and Pollinators Pavilion (2021 AIANY Design Awards). Recent projects include a hempcrete Pollinators Habitat at The Bee Conservancy on Governors Island, NY (2024); this example of a monitored solitary bee habitat, which provides habitat for cavity-dwelling native bees and feeds a database for automated insect identification, stands among projects highlighted by Pratt Institute for the New York City Climate Exchange.

Ariane’s projects and writing explore the concepts and realities of making architecture for multiple species, from her anthology Architectural Theories of the Environment: Posthuman Territory (Routledge, 2013) to “Feral Architecture,” in Aesthetics Equals Politics (MIT Press, 2019); “Holes” in Ambiguous Territory (Actar, 2020); “Feral Surfaces” in Future Offices (Actar 2023) and “Building Envelopes as Multi-species Habitats,” AD Posthuman Architecture (2023) and “Feral Sensibilities” in Notes on Peter Eisenman (Yale, 2025).

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