About
I am a co-founder of West Port Architects and Urban Design Officer for Winchester City Council. I also sit on the Design and Quality Review Panels for the London boroughs of Ealing, Brent, Haringey and Lambeth.
In 2012, I graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a Masters in Architecture. Following that period of study, I moved back to London, where I worked in several renowned architecture and design practices. From 2015 – 2017 I undertook a MSc in Urban Design and City Planning at University College London (UCL). I graduated this course with distinction and commendations for my research into the inclusion and participation of black ethnic minorities in the redevelopment of Burgess Park, Peckham.
In 2016, I co-founded the architectural practice West Port Architects. Our office specialises in cultural and residential commissions, and exhibition design. In the years since it’s founding West Port has grown in size, won and delivered several high profile bids and projects. In recognition of the studio’s achievements, it is profiled in the latest editions of the Architect’s Journal 40 Under 40 and New Architects 4 publications. Alongside West Port's design involvements it has served as a mentoring practice for architecture and planning students from UCL, Nottingham University, and the Royal College of Art.
Tuition and Mentorship:
I discovered my passion for tuition in 2010 while looking for a way to supplement my finances during my Part 1 year-out. As someone who had little experience of architecture or art before university, I have affinity with college students intrigued by architecture as a degree choice but are unfamiliar with its ins and outs, and with undergraduates at the start of their university life but finding difficulty in navigating the plethora of terminology, conceptual underpinnings, and expectations of an architectural course in Britain.