Experience

Office S&M

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

• Architect and Partner

  • Mar 2013 - Present

  Established by Catrina Stewart and Hugh McEwen, Office S&M is an award-winning architecture practice working with a 50/50 split of public and private clients on individual homes, new-build housing, workspace retrofit and public realm projects. The practice engages clients and users in a collaborative process, experimenting with colours and materials to deliver joyful and unexpected spaces and places; elevating the everyday with exuberance.Office S&M responds to the context of each project – house, street or neighbourhood – acknowledging the existing, while deploying colour and narrative inventively to create drama. Built projects include: Valetta House (2017), which won the NLA Don't Move, Improve! 2018 'Best use of materials' award; Salmen House (2017); Janus House (2018); and Finsbury Park High Street shops (2017), all in London. Current projects include: Mill Corner House, a newbuild house in East Sussex; the Green Room in Newham; Nag’s Head Market, Holloway; and Chipstead Way, Croydon.Achievements to date include: winning Building Design’s Young Architect of the Year Award (2020); inclusion in The Architects’ Journal’s 40 under 40 - a showcase of architecture’s brightest up-and-coming talent (2020); and recognition as a Rising Star by RIBA Journal (2019).



The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Teaching Fellow

  • Sep 2018 - Aug 2019

  I teach Unit Four on the undergraduate BSc Architecture programme, alongside Catrina Stewart. In Unit Four we believe that students can change the world with architecture. Using architecture as a critical tool, we propose projects that design for possible futures, and in doing so, become powerful polemic tools that enable us, and others, to question our values.We relish bold ideas and encourage the pursuit of individual approaches to design, supported by workshops and structured tasks. Much of the unit’s work is developed through physical models that test material and process, which are hybridised with digital models that develop form and space. The combination of analogue and digital modelling both have their ultimate outcomes in a high level of representational drawings.



Oxford Brookes University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Associate Lecturer

  • Sep 2013 - Sep 2018

  I co- tutor a unit on the studio module for second and third year architecture students at Oxford Broookes University. Setting and organising a teaching programme for 25 students over the year, including a week long field trip, has utilised my organisational and management skills. This position builds on two years of teaching on the UCL Summer School, and invitations as a guest critic at Greenwich, Kingston and the Architectural Association.



Metropolitan Workshop

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

• Architect

  • Aug 2014 - Sep 2015

  At Metropolitan Workshop, I was the architect on Mapleton Crescent for Pocket Living. Following our competition winning proposal for the RIBA Wates Private Rented Sector Ideas Competition, we were approached by Pocket Living to design a tall residential building on a site next to the River Wandle. Pocket produce developments that typically comprise of over 60% affordable homes for key workers, and they do this by working with award winning architects. I have been working on the Mapleton Crescent proposals to deliver 89 units over 27 storeys with generous communal amenity spaces on the roof and on the ground floor overlooking the Wandle.



Pollard Thomas Edwards

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

• Architect

  • Nov 2011 - Aug 2014

  At Pollard Thomas Edwards I make use of my comprehensive set of skills on large scale residential schemes, and have seen a £28.5 million housing scheme from competition in 2011 through start on site in 2013, and continue to assist on the project. My experience encompasses the production of the information required to achieve client, planning and building control approval. I have produced a wide range of high quality information, such as 3D visualisations, construction drawings and accommodation schedules, as well as attending consultations, planning committees and DTM’s. This role has required a high quality of communication, both within the office team, and with consultants, councils and clients. In addition, on my latest job, a £210 million estate regeneration, I have the responsibility of managing the onboarding, tasks and review of two new members of the team, as well as aiding Revit integration and document management for the rest of the architectural team.



Sampson Associates

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

• Part II Architectural Assistant

  • Jul 2011 - Sep 2011

  I was personally responsible for taking on the existing proposals for two £400,000 hotel renovations and creating comprehensive planning drawing packages, writing design & access and heritage statements and submitting both hotels for full listed building planning approval. I designed and drew up details for fittings that required specification at an early stage due to grade II listing. In addition, I moved a £100,000 pub renovation from successful planning application through to submission for building control approval. Working with the kitchen fit-out consultants and the main contractor brought my communication skills to the foreground, especially as the ground works had already begun on site.



FAT

• Afghanistan
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Part II Architectural Assistant

  • Jun 2011 - Sep 2011

  I was employed by FAT to firstly produce iterative models for a £600,000 two bed Living Architecture country house, subsequent 3D printed versions and, once the initial design had been agreed, draw up the design. I applied my modelling skills to the full throughout a rigorous and highly aesthetic design process. The project is now on site and due for completion in late 2014.



Nissen Adams LLP

• Part I Architectural Assistant

  • Sep 2008 - Aug 2009

  I worked from stage A-L on “Telling Tales” at The Victoria and Albert Museum. This was a £65,000 exhibition display for high end design, on show for three months in the summer of 2009. My work entailed the initial design for the exhibition space, meetings with the design team, creating the complete drawing package, tendering the works and issuing instructions during construction. This project allowed me to prove my abilities across all RIBA work stages, especially as only Pippa Nissen and I worked on the project, and I have put this knowledge to use in my subsequent employment. The exhibition was visited by 145,000 people and received positive coverage in thirteen national and international publications. It was subsequently nominated for the Architects Journal Small Projects Award 2010 and led to more exhibition work for Nissen Adams.



Archial Architects

• Belgium
• Architecture and Planning

• Part I Architectural Assistant

  • Jul 2007 - Sep 2007

  I was responsible for taking a £35 million campus for East Surrey College from outline planning approval towards a full planning application. This involved two and three dimensional planning drawings, the detailing of enabling works, regular design team meetings and supplier consultation for specialist finishes.



DLP Inskips Design

• Part I Architectural Assistant

  • Jul 2006 - Sep 2006

  I worked closely with an architectural technician to design two new science classrooms for Redbourne Upper School that needed to be built the next summer for £200,000. We moved the project very quickly from an initial sketch by the architect, through to a planning application and up to building control drawings.