Natália Peťková is a Bratislava-born, London-grown architect based in Zurich. Her work spans building design, field-based research and writing about the built environment.
Graduated from the University of Cambridge (2015) and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (2018), she holds a doctorate from the École nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris‑Malaquais (2023). Set out as nine short stories that follow a series of projects in the making in Spain, Switzerland and Britain, her thesis explores what the choice of stone in structure is doing to contemporary architecture.
Presently working as an architect for Caruso St John Architects in Zurich, Natália has previously collaborated with architectural practices in London, Brussels, Porto and Paris — most recently Barrault Pressacco in Paris and Caruso St John in London. She has taught diploma-level design and research at ENSA-Paris Malaquais and been an invited tutor, jury member and speaker at a number of European architecture schools.
Natália’s work has been exhibited at the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam and published in Species of Theses and Other Pieces (Transcript, 2022), Contre les normes? (les presses du réel, 2023), Ce que l’architecture fait à l’écologie (Éditions 205, 2024); as well as the journals D’Architectures (FR), Tracés (CH), Faces (CH) and Koncept (SK).
As an independent scholar, she recently participated in the Biennale svizzera del territorio in Lugano and the European Architectural History Network conferences in Athens and Porto. She is the guest editor of the upcoming June Solstice 2026 newsletter for Women Writing Architecture.
Her book, Building in Stone Today, published with Birkhäuser (Basel), will be released in mid-2026.