Joshua Waterstone

Joshua Waterstone is currently director of Joshua Waterstone Architects, a research-based design studio interested in cross disciplinary work across a range of scales and typologies. Prior to establishing the studio, Joshua has 15 years' experience working within the fields of architecture and exhibition design, realising a number of award winning projects for internationally renowned offices in both London and Copenhagen.

Robustness of form, methodology and aesthetic characterise the studio’s work. Provenance of materials and structural logic underlie and environmental concern irrespective of project scale. This, allied with meticulous research and appraisal of brief, site and context actualise projects with critical appeal.

Former clients and collaborators include: Stanton Williams, La Biennale di Venezia, Office Kim Lenschow, Pihlmann Architects, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, The National Portrait Gallery, and The Royal Opera House London with Stanton Williams. Norm Architects and AA Collective. Current clients and collaborators include: CHART Art Fair, Norse Projects, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and The Royal Danish Academy of Art Design and Architecture.

Joshua has previously held an academic position at the Royal Danish Academy; 2018-2023, holding course leading roles at both The Institute of Architecture Landscape & Urbanism and Institute of Art & Architecture. He has has acted as visiting critic for both Cambridge and Yale Universities.

JW previously held the role of Architecture program director at CHART Art. CHART is the leading Nordic art event and a new editorial platform. Bringing together dedicated individuals and inspiring professionals to impact the future of the arts community in the Nordics and beyond.
 

• Dip. Arch ARB
• Assistant Professor
• PGCHE

• Royal Danish Academy - Architecture Design & Conservation

• Waterstone, J., Marker Boccardi Christensen, M., Christoffersen Gramkow, M., Støvring, J., and Vacher, M., We have Architecture in Common – A student based interdisciplinary workshop focusing on Universal Design in CWUAAT: New Frontiers for Inclusion 2025, University of Cambridge (Springer), 2025
• Hephaistos
  A Phenomenological Approach to Inclusive Design, Springer. The World Architecture Congress Copenhagen (UIA) 2023.
• Plasticity of Scale
  EAEA16 Envisioning Architectural Scales, Royal Danish Academy Architecture Design & Conservation, 2023.
• Productive Disruptive
  Spaces of exploration in-between architectural pedagogy and practice, Charrette AAE.Association of Architectural Educators Conference, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, 2023. 
• Hephaistos 
  H22 Future Cities Expo, Helsingborg, Sweden. Royal Danish Academy Architecture Design & Conservation, Institute of Architecture Landscape & Urbanism, 2022. 
• ADFÆRD / VELFÆRD
  Behaviour & Welfare, Royal Danish Academy Architecture Design & Conservation, 2022.
• Catalogue
  Reflections on Collaborative Methods in Contemporary Artistic Practice, Royal Danish Academy Architecture Design & Conservation, KUV Artistic Research Grant, 2021.
• Artifice Edifice 
  Royal Danish Academy Architecture Design & Conservation, Institute of Art & Architecture Spring Exhibition, 2021
• Mind
  Royal Danish Academy Architecture Design & Conservation, Institute of Art & Architecture BA Manifesto, 2020

Speaker - New Frontiers for Inclusion CWUAAT 2025. Cambridge University - https://www.inclusivedesigntoolkit.com/conference/

Speaker - World Architecture Festival, Copenhagen 2023
Architecture in Common with The Royal Danish Academy

Invited lecture - Adaptive Reuse: The King’s College Quadrangle Project, 2024, University of The Arts London Camberwell College of Art

Invited critic - Aalborg University Department of Architecture Design & Media Technology, MA Studio Critique 2023

Invited Lecture - Hephaistos. H22 The Making of a Smarter City
https://h22.se/en/, Royal Danish Academy x IKEA, 2022

Seminar and master class - Yale University MA Architecture and Royal Danish Academy BA Architecture students, in collaboration with Anapuma Kundoo, 2020
 

Bevica Scholarship - Shortlisted Academic, 2023

Artistic Research Funding - KUV, The Royal Danish Academy, 2022

Danish Arts Foundation - Research Funding, Danish Ministry of Culture for Artistic Research, 2020

Artistic Research Funding, The Dreyers Fond, 2020

Joshua Waterstone is a qualified architect and Assistant Professor specialising in
practice-based research at the intersection of architecture, material provenance, and inclusive spatial strategies. Through his studio, Joshua Waterstone Architects, he develops built projects that function as research artefacts, examining robustness of form, environmental logic, and material origin. His work spans cultural institutions, public space and urban interventions, and has been realised internationally through collaborations with Stanton Williams, Henning Larsen, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, CHART Art Fair, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and The Royal Danish Academy.

His research is disseminated through peer-reviewed publication, international conferences and cross-disciplinary partnerships. Recent publications with Springer include A Phenomenological Approach to Inclusive Design (UIA World Congress of Architecture, Copenhagen 2023) and We Have Architecture in Common (CWUAAT 2025, University of Cambridge), situating his work in global discourse on inclusive design, phenomenology and material culture. Additional outputs include Plasticity of Scale (EAEA16), Productive Disruptive (AAE Conference), and artistic research publications and built work, funded by the Danish Arts Foundation, The Dreyer’s Foundation and KUV.

He has presented at the World Architecture Festival (Copenhagen 2023) and CWUAAT Cambridge (2025), and has delivered invited lectures and seminars at Yale University, Cambridge University, University of the Arts London, and Aalborg University. Formerly Course Leader at the Royal Danish Academy, he led research-driven design studios across The Institute of Architecture, Landscape and Urbanism and The Institute of Art & Architecture.

Joshua’s trajectory advances a model of research-through-practice, where live projects, publication and industry exchange operate as interconnected modes of inquiry contributing to contemporary architectural debate.

Joshua was a successful applicant to the Vice-Chancellor's Fund for 2025-26 for his project, Parallels in Contemporary Practice.

• Adaptive reuse
• Material research
• Phenomenology
• Universal design and accessibility