Joel Mills, AoU My office is three blocks away from the National Mall. I have had a relationship with this grand gathering space throughout my..

Simon Allford: RIBA President, and founder partner AHMM Architects I am an architect, born to an architect father.  I grew up with him, my mother..

Giulia Vallone: Senior Architect, Cork City Council With every return home to Sicily, there are places I visit that never cease to replenish my creative..

Angela Brady OBE: PPRIBA, Architect and Design Champion. For years we wanted to build our own office, or create it as part of a development..

Steffen Lehmann: Urbanist My choice of place had to be Venice! The Italian city is simply too unique and memorable not to rank at the..

Rob Ramwell: Former Estate Management Officer Hulme in Manchester holds a very special place in my heart. I moved into the (usually preceded by infamous..

Chris Lethbridge: Artist I work in arts and creative industry development and management. I’m also a somewhat sporadic artist based in St Just-in-Penwith, West Cornwall,..

Satpal Kaur: Design Activist I come from a generation of builders who travelled from pre-partition India to Kenya under British colonial rule and finally arrived..

Sir Terry Farrell – Architect and urbanist I grew up in a prefab on a housing estate to the north of Newcastle, the edge of..

Shevaughn Rieck – Architect I have been at Farrells London since my placement as a Part I at Newcastle University. 15 years later, I am still..

Hélène Rudlin – Garden Designer I spent my formative years in the Perigord Noir and I think the hiraeth I felt, during the intervening years..

Robert Huxford – Director, Urban Design Group Before the SARS II Coronavirus Pandemic put an end to them, after evening meetings in London’s Smithfields, I..

Shruti Hemani, Urban Designer & Illustrator I qualified as an architect in India and trained as an urban designer at Nottingham University. I worked with..

Tosin Oshinowo, Architect I was born in 1980 in Ibadan in Nigeria and spent part of my childhood in Lagos. It was happy and uneventful..

Simon Smithson, Architect I guess you could call me a Leeds lad as I was born at Jimmie’s, went to Leeds Grammar School, and did..