Keith has led many of FCBStudios' award-winning projects, including 2008 RIBA Stirling Prize winner Accordia Housing, 2014 Stirling Prize shortlisted Manchester School of Art and 2023 Stirling Prize shortlisted University of Warwick Faculty of Arts. His recent work encompasses major urban regeneration schemes, together with public museums, galleries, and major university projects throughout the UK. Keith is a Design Council Ambassador and a previous Chair of CABE National Design Review Panel and Oxford Design Review Panel. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bath in 2018. Keith is a guest critic and lecturer at a number of Schools of Architecture in the UK, and a frequent speaker at conferences in the UK and internationally, including regular contributor and judge of the World Architecture Awards. Keith has co-authored FCBS books, and other publications.
Martyn spent 17 years with Cathedral Group/U+I, including six years on the board before leaving to become the Development Director at the 1,200-acre Dartington Hall Estate in Devon in 2016. He returned to U+I in 2019 to deliver the creative strategy at the heart of its purpose-driven regeneration development portfolio including major regeneration schemes in Manchester, London, and Cambridge and was part of the team that completed the sale of the company to Landsec in December 2021. Now Martyn is Creative Director of one of the largest regeneration development portfolios in the UK including Mayfield in Manchester, MediaCity in Salford, St David’s Centre in Cardiff, Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow, and the 120-acre, 6,000-home new town in northwest Cambridge at Hartree. Martyn is a visiting lecturer at a number of architecture schools including The Bartlett and Manchester School of Architecture, is Chair of the London Festival of Architecture, and founder of The Young Architects and Developers Alliance (YADA), a networking organisation that fuels partnership and understanding between young architects and developers. He has been a jury member of the AJ's Small Projects, The Architect of the Year, the NLA and the Estates Gazette Awards, writes a regular column in BDOnline, and contributes to the Estates Gazette.
Gavin Hale-Brown of Henley Halebrown studied at the University of Liverpool. After qualifying, he worked in Japan. Where he designed hand-crafted traditional houses in remote Western Honshu. This was a big influence on his subsequent work as an architect and, in particular, in terms of attention to detailing and how this relates to cultural specificity in design. In 2005, Gavin and his partner Simon Henley were selected for the 40Under40 UK Architects exhibition at the V&A, London – a list designed to identify the future generation of leading architects. He has taught at various institutions including the University of Yonago, Japan and The Bartlett, London. Gavin sits on the International Advisory Board of the Hume Institute, Lausanne and is an external examiner for John Moores University, Liverpool. The studio has worked across Europe and extensively across Russia, delivering masterplanning, housing, health, education and cultural buildings. Henley Halebrown are widely acknowledged experts in retrofit, workplace and healthcare design, and in recent years have become renowned for their housing and education expertise. This has been developed over many years from their competition-winning, and sector-leading, zero-carbon St Mary’s Island Housing Scheme in Kent (2001), to the award of The London Mayor’s Award for Architecture, for Kings Crescent, London - which is currently entering its final phases. The studio has been acknowledged as ‘housing architect of the year ‘in 2021 and previously ‘Healthcare architect of the year’. The work has been acknowledged internationally through the EU Mies award and the Fritz Hoger Preis. Gavin has extensive experience of working with existing buildings both in conversion and adaptive reuse including the Grade One listed Sheridan House and the naturally ventilated headquarters of TalkBack Thames TV which received the accolade best of “Best office in Europe” 2004. In 2023 the building received the Architecture Today award for buildings that have ‘stood the test of time’, 20+ years after its completion. In 2018, Chadwick Hall, for Roehampton University, was shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize and in 2022 Hackney New Primary School + 333 Kingsland Road, was also shortlisted for the Prize considered the preeminent architectural award in the UK. Going on to win the Neave Brown award for the ‘best affordable housing scheme’ in the country and the public vote for the prize itself. The Studio currently works across many sectors, primarily housing, education and commercial across UK and Europe, continuing to lecture and teach widely. In 2024 the Henley Halebrown will enter its 30th year.
Tanvir Hasan is a Director Emeritus at Donald Insall Associates, having served as Deputy Chairman and London studio lead for over a decade. An accredited conservation architect with a background in academic research, she has led high-profile projects transforming scheduled and Grade I-listed buildings such as The Parliamentary Estate and The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. She is currently working with the World Monument Fund in Iraq, providing post-conflict conservation advice to rehabilitate war-damaged cultural institutions while bringing together communities
Oliver is an architect, podcast host, and founder of Ackroyd Lowrie, an innovative architecture practice based in East London employing 25 people. He has 20 years’ experience designing schools, mixed-use masterplans, multi-unit residential schemes, film and photography studios, and cultural buildings. Oliver is passionate about bringing the next generation of built environment professionals into the industry, and has set up the AL Academy to work with young people across East London to gain them qualifications in Architecture, and permanent roles at Ackroyd Lowrie. Prior to founding Ackroyd Lowrie, Oliver spent 10 years at Architype, one of the world’s leading sustainable architects, where he delivered Passivhaus projects including the award-winning £24m Highgate School in North London, for which he was Project Architect. Oliver passionately believes in working closely with clients, makers, and builders to deliver projects in a collaborative manner. Oliver is a passionate campaigner for the high quality, and sustainable design of cities. His podcast, Urban Forecast, seeks to speak to prominent decision-makers about the future of cities. Along with his business partner, Jon Ackroyd, Oliver has co-founded the Breakfast Club Briefings, a network bringing together politicians, planners, and property experts to focus on how our urban spaces can better work for the people that.
Jo McCafferty is an architect and has been a Director at Levitt Bernstein since 2006. She is known for designing and delivering innovative housing of all scales and types, campaigning for housing quality and advising clients on design standards. Jo sits on Design Review Panels for Lewisham, Hackney, and Newham and is also co-author of the acclaimed second edition of The Housing Design Handbook, published in 2018. She passionately champions for the involvement of children and young people in design, and most recently gave evidence at the Select Committee Hearing for Children, Young People, and the Built Environment. She has been Chair of the NLA’s Expert Panel on Housing since 2020 and is co-producer of the award-winning ‘The White Flats’ film, which celebrates the residents’ lived experience in the Highgate New Town estate in North London.
John is a director and trustee of Orms and has been in practice for 27 years. He has experience across a range of sectors and led many of the practice's award-winning projects including The Standard hotel, 1 New Oxford Street, and 16 Old Bailey. Most recently he completed the music-led regeneration of St Giles Circus into the Outernet district which has become one of the most popular tourist destinations in the UK. He is a member of the Camden design review panel, London 3.0, the Recolight working group (which is encouraging the lighting industry to embrace circular economy principles and reduce waste) and has judged a number of awards including RIBA London and Civic Trust. John is a strong advocate of retaining and refurbishing existing buildings and has developed an expertise in transforming under-utilised buildings. He enjoys working on listed buildings and is currently working on a range of Grade I and II* conversions.
OBE, BA (HONS), MA, DU LSBU (HON.), DU UCEM (HON.), FRSA, HON FRIBA, HON Friai Sadie Morgan is a co-founding director of dRMM. Championing design for over two decades, she holds government advisory roles including as a Commissioner for the National Infrastructure Commission and as a board member for Homes England. Sadie is a senior advisor for the NLA and Chair of their New London Sounding Board. She has held professorships at the University of Westminster and Cambridge University and co-founded the Quality of Life Foundation – an independent body prioritising wellbeing in the built environment.
Starting his architectural career with Woods Bagot in 2004, Simon has worked across a wide range of sectors and disciplines including workplace, hotels, serviced apartments and retail, on both architectural and interior projects. During his architectural career in the UK, Simon has focused on residential projects, working to develop Woods Bagot’s approach to residential design alongside global sector leaders. This approach has led to the design of some of Europe’s most successful residential schemes. As part of the ongoing understanding of the residential market, Simon has undertaken research into the burgeoning Build-to-Rent sector, becoming a thought leader in design for this growing sector.
Tatiana von Preussen co-founded vPPR Architects in 2009 with Catherine Pease and Jessica Reynolds, a women-led architecture practice built on original and equitable design. The practice focuses on the crossover of art and architecture and designs for cultural, residential, office, public realm and education clients. vPPR has won numerous awards including Emerging Woman Architect of the Year in 2015. Tatiana has taught studios at Columbia University and the Architectural Association, and is also a member of the Tower Hamlets, Greenwich and Barking and Dagenham Design Review Panels. She has previously been a judge on the UK Brick Awards, London RIBA Awards, RIBA MacEwan Awards and the Camden Design Awards.
