Ariane Lourie Harrison

Ariane Lourie Harrison, RA, AIA is a Principal and co-founder of Harrison Atelier and a registered architect in New York State. She currently is the Coordinator of the Masters of Science in Urban Design program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Pratt Institute; Lecturer at The Weitzman School of Design and Lecturer at the Yale School of Architecture. She was a critic and lecturer at the Yale School of Architecture and Yale College from 2006 to 2017. Her 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 Envelopes” in The Future Office (Actar, 2023).

Her firm, Harrison Atelier has built several pavilions featuring cladding systems that accommodate multiple species. The Pollinators Pavilion in Hudson, NY is a visitor center/field station that houses and monitors solitary bees with an innovative cladding system (awarded 2021 AIANY Design Honor, NYCML 2018 and grants for AI for the Earth from Microsoft and National Geographic) that was fabricated in partnership with LafargeHolcim’s Ductal® Workshop. Harrison Atelier is developing the Hempcrete Habitats for The Bee Conservancy on Governors Island, NY using a mycelium-infused hempcrete as an ethically sourced material; the Hempcrete Habitat continues to develop a database on native pollinators using an AI-based model.

She earned her AB from Princeton University, her M. Arch from GSAPP Columbia University and PhD. From New York University.