Rich
In the studio:
I bring both passion and determination to everything I do. Whether it is solving a site construction detail or thinking about how to solve the housing crisis. I have an ability to think critically across all scales of a project.
Establishing astudio and seeing it win the best architectural practice award within 5 years was really inspiring. I love to see our team grow, from our early days to now we have been shaped by our people, their skills and their ambitions. Our studio welcomes those with limitless minds. This is what inspires me to drive astudio forwards.
We have set some amazing courageous goals for the practice, setting out to change the game requires courage. At astudio we try to do what is right and not what is easy. This requires courage, as often this philosophy requires us to challenge set ways of working, and to look forwards not backwards for solutions.
Something that has stayed with me from childhood was what my grandfather once wrote to me: Courage isn’t the lack of fear, it is standing your ground in spite of it.
One amazing fact:
Before becoming an architect I was a patisserie chef at a 5-star hotel.
Outside the studio:
I can be found on the first tee on a Sunday morning early enough to watch the dew rise, after which I struggle to remember my A level maths to help my daughters with their homework, before cooking up a family dinner.
