Business of Architecture UK Podcast

Today I have the absolute pleasure of speaking with fellow podcaster Marketing Consultant and Director of Abbas Marketing, Ayo Abbas.   Ayo is an award-winning marketing consultant who specializes in working with built environment firms delivering strategic marketing content and campaigns. She was recently named and took the overall title of Digital Woman of the Year 2022 at the Digital Women Awar...

Today I will be speaking with Roxie Sarhangi of Roxie PR, a full-service public relations, social media, consultancy, and branding firm, founded in 2013. Roxie PR works with influential brands, businesses, and individuals in the fields of art and culture, architecture, interior design, hospitality, consumer products, luxury lifestyle, and wellness. Based in West Hollywood, Roxie PR attracts best-i...

Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Alex Scott Whitby, founder of ScottWhitbyStudio, an award-winning architecture and urban design practice based in London. Alex is currently leading projects that range from a maypole on the Strand to a large private house in Riyadh, from a public space in Winchester to a new square outside St Paul's Cathedral. Passionate about education, Alex combines lead...

Today I will speak with Jonathan Morrison, an architecture correspondent for The Times .  In this role, he has written about subjects as diverse as life on Mars, drone-killing lasers, billion-pound football stadiums, and a pink unicorn glove puppet named Mr. Grunwald.     His articles have also been published in Medium, The Sunday Times, Medium, The American Surgeon, JAMA Surgery, The JAMA Network...

Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Chun-Qing Li (AKA Lee) is an award-winning entrepreneur, the founder and CVO of KREOD companies, consisting of an architectural design practice, an AEC Tech start-up and a construction company.   Li spearheaded the finance, design, build and creation of the KREOD Pavilion during the London Olympic Games in the summer of 2012. He developed a new workflow w...

Today I will be speaking with Tosin Oshinowo, Nigerian native and founder of CMDesign Atelier. She has an impressive background that includes design and architectural degrees from Kingston College in London, a degree in urban design from the Bartlett School of Architecture Architectural Diploma from the AA, and more recently curator of the 2nd Lagos Biennial, Sharjah Architecture Triennial. Using...

Today I will be speaking with Neal Shasore, the chief executive and head of school at The London School of Architecture, Trustee of the Twentieth Century Society and the Architectural Heritage Fund, and an architectural historian focussing on architectural culture in the first half of the twentieth century in Britain and the empire. He is also a leading expert on the history and evolution of the p...

Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Tanisha Raffiuddin, the Founder and Creative Director of Concept Culture, a specialist branding and marketing agency for the built environment sector. Tanisha helps built environment organizations strategically grow their brand and business by tapping into the power of storytelling. As a trained architect, Tanisha has over 15 years of combined experience...

Today I will be speaking with Visual House's Founder and CEO, Robert Herrick and Head of Production, Mattia Lusignani.    Vision House is an ideal fit for the world's leading property developers, designers, and agencies who look to position their projects in the most desirable, refined, and elevated way possible. They offer a full-service creative agency that establishes iconic real estate brands...

Today we will be speaking with the Studio Director of Wade Weissmann Architecture (WWA), Tom Wynn.   Tom has a  passion for inspiring young architects in the classical tradition and extolling the virtues of fine craftsmanship.  He is a strong believer in empowering young designers to discover their professional interests and identify their strengths so that they may confidently evolve into serious...

This week I am speaking with Tania Ihlenfeld who is an architect, entrepreneur, and author with more than twenty-three years' experience leading, observing, and innovating within multi-disciplinary teams, including almost thirteen years with Grimshaw, London.  She is a leader with significant experience navigating through complex project terrains and successfully out the other side. Her passion fo...

Hello and welcome to the Business of Architecture. This week I have the great pleasure of sitting down with Mario Cucinella at his new exhibition at the Architectural Association: The Future is a Journey to the Past - Stories about Sustainability which opened on the 21st of September. Mario is an Honorary AIA Fellow and was also awarded an International Fellowship by the RIBA. He started his firm,...

This week I am speaking with Gordon Evans, the Director and Founder of Yoop Architects and the Founder of Yoop Knows. Gordon has been running his own practice for over 13 years. They specialize in planning, design and delivery information, primarily for residential home owners. Yoop Knows, an architect's dashboard, is a cloud-based software solution for small to medium sized architectural practice...

James Pickard co-founded Cartwright Pickard with Peter Cartwright in 1997 and now runs the London office. He has been the lead on a number of award winning and pioneering projects. He has market-leading skills in housing design, with a particular strength in developing buildable, viable schemes for challenging and complex urban sites and has helped the practice to develop a reputation for innovati...

This week's episode was quite an honor as I had the privilege to sit down with an impactful and important figure of Spanish Modernism: Alberto Campo Baeza. Though he doesn't look it, Alberto is 75 years old and still producing extraordinary buildings, including THE ROBERT OLNICK PAVILION in upstate NY, along with a number of stunning private homes around the world. He is a tenured Professor of mor...

This week I am speak construction finance specialist Matthew Vincent who is the director and founder of MCA Finance Matthew specializes in helping clients with a number of different types of lending solutions for their properties and projects from your typical mortgages to buy to let mortgages, bridging and development finances, commercial and business loans, mortgage restructuring, equity release...

This week I am speaking with one half of Sydney-based international award-winning design studio PAPPAS ALEXIOU, Charles Alexiou. Having trained originally in Nuclear Physics and Applied Mathematics, Charles had a former career in investment banking and software design. Charles then changed career becoming an interior designer starting his on firm in 1990 then with the return of his architect cousi...

Today we speak with architectural lighting designer and founder of Nulty, Paul Nulty. Nulty was originally in London and is an award-winning lighting design consultancy renowned for delivering immersive lighting projects for huge global brands such as Nike, Samsung, Harrods, Bloomingdale's, and Burberry with an international footprint spanning Europe, the U.S., the Middle East, and North Africa. N...

Today's podcast is an episode we released on our Business of Architecture podcast earlier this year. It was so good, we wanted to share it with our Business of Architecture UK listeners as well. We have the privilege of hearing from three Directors of Billings Jackson Design, an industrial design firm working at the interface of construction and product manufacturing. Duncan Jackson is an engineer...

Benjamin Garcia Saxe is the Founder and Design Director of Studio Saxe in San Jose, Costa Rica. Ben and Rion Willard are old colleagues, having worked together at RSHP, where Benjamin was already winning awards on the side. His first project was an extension of his masters thesis, a hand constructed bamboo shelter. This was a beautifully thoughtful space that demonstrated the power of design and m...

Many architects are curious about getting involved in the development side of projects, but don't know where to start. In this episode, Ben Richards, Development Director of XP Property and Managing Director of AURA Architecture, gives ample context on how setting up his architectural practice on auto-pilot has served as a blueprint for other development and investment strategies. Rion Willard spe...

Chris Hopkinson is an Architectural photographer and ARB certified Architect based in London. His education and background helped him develop a unique eye and photographic approach. Some of his top clients have included Weston Williamson + Partners, Studio Egret West, Peabodys Coffee, Marchini Curran, among others. Today we discuss the importance of photography in architecture, getting the most ou...

This week I had the good fortune of visiting Acrylicize, a multidisciplinary design studio in Hackney. They've cornered a niche market which occupies a number of different territories, from fine art and interior design, to architecture. They are masterful at creating brand experience and awareness in corporate and commercial environments. I spoke with Global Managing Director, Paul Arad. We discus...

Michál Cohen and Cindy Walters are the co-founders of London-based Walters & Cohen Architects. Since 1994 the practice has developed a strong portfolio of education, cultural and leisure projects. They believe in the power of a collaborative design process: having a keen ability to listen to clients, translating their needs into a robust design that results in an innovative, award-winning, and wel...

Veronica Baraldi was born in Rome, studied in Venice, worked in Paris and Holland, and has now settled in Portugal. Her 20 years of experience as an architect and project manager has refined and prepared her for the expert customized consulting she now offers to architects and firms, helping them pinpoint exactly what the business needs and may be unaware of. Veronica believes that working in arch...