Experience

Useful Studio Architecture

• United Kingdom
• Architecture and Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founding Director

  • Jul 2014 - Present

  Founding Director of Useful Studio and Board Member and Deputy Chair of the Useful Simple TrustMember of Women in Property, Urban Land Institute and National Association of Women in ConstructionUseful Studio is an architecture and masterplanning practice and Social Enterprise committed to being a force for good in the built environment. We design inspiring, useful and sustainable places and buildings for our clients.Useful Studio is part of the Useful Simple Trust, an employee benefit, multi-niche organisation of talented specialists working across the built environment. The Trust includes some of the country’s most respected architects, sustainability consultants, engineers and communication designers. Our clients include the West London College, Berkeley Group/St James, London Borough of Hounslow, City & Provincial Properties, The Blackstone Group, Lend Lease, TCN Developers, St Mary's University, Isleworth & Syon School for Boys, Milton Keynes Council and the Diocese of Westminster.



Catherine Ramsden, Architecture + Design

• Managing Director

  • Apr 2009 - May 2013



Foster and Partners

• Cameroon
• Legal Services

• Associate Partner

  • Jul 1996 - Jul 2006



University of Pennsylvania

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant

  • Sep 1992 - May 1995



WRT [Wallace Roberts & Todd]

• Planning and Urban Designer

  • Apr 1990 - Apr 1993