BAKERBROWN - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Physical Regeneration Manager, Sea Space
Duncan is a practicing architect, academic, environmental activist and author of ‘The Re-Use Atlas: a designer's guide towards a circular economy' published by RIBA.
He has practised, researched, and taught around issues of sustainable development and closed-looped systems for more than 25 years. He recently founded BakerBrown, a research-led architectural practice and consultancy, created to address the huge demands presented by the climate and ecological emergency as well as the challenges of designing in a post-COVID world.
Over the years Duncan's practices (and academic ‘live' projects) have won numerous accolades including RIBA National Awards and a special award from The Stephen Lawrence Prize for the Brighton Waste House - the prize money has since been used to set up a student prize for circular, closed loop design at the University of Brighton where Duncan teaches.
Job Titles:
- Architect
- Project Architect
Emma is a Project Architect who joined Baker Brown in September 2022. She has over 20 years professional experience focusing on residential projects and schemes that create well designed sustainable homes for the future. She also has a particular interest in historic buildings and how they can be sympathetically upgraded and repurposed.
Emma is currently working on the conversion of a grade 2 listed agricultural building to residential, the retrofit of a large listed family home and comprehensive alterations, extensions and thermal upgrades to a detached home overlooking Lewes.
Before joining Baker Brown she ran her own practice as well as working for larger Architectural practices in Brighton and Canterbury. She has previously managed the full reconstruction of a fire damaged grade 2* listed building in Westminster, London as well as overseeing numerous projects involving alterations and upgrades to grade 1 listed churches and historic properties across the South East. As well as her interest in historic buildings Emma has in depth knowledge and experience of residential development and in her previous practice focused on social housing and mixed use schemes for a variety of social housing providers and local authorities.
In her spare time she is a trustee of a successful Community Land Trust and has assisted them to achieve planning permission for four new truly affordable homes for the local community which are nearing completion. These homes are being constructed by local tradespeople, and where possible use local materials. They have been designed to achieve EPC A rating and when completed they will provide family housing with affordable rents and low household bills due to the incorporated energy saving measures including solar arrays, air source heat pumps and enhanced thermal construction methods.
Johana joined BakerBrown first in Summer 2018 and re-joined them again in September 2021 after finishing her studies at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Technology in Brno, Czech Republic.
Johana is an exceptionally talented architectural designer with brilliant drawing and visualisation skills. This is back up by sound technical knowledge of low carbon construction systems.
Because of Johana's broad skills (through RIBA 2-5), she ends up working on most projects developed in the BakerBrown Studio
Throughout her studies, she won several architectural student competitions and worked for several studios - helping with projects from small scale family houses to international competition for Main Railway Station in Brno.
Job Titles:
- Project Architect
- Project Architect and Certified Passive House Designer
Lee is a Project Architect who joined Baker Brown in 2022. With 7 years professional experience he is a skilled designer and highly competent project leader with a particular interest in refined, user focused design to create buildings that minimise their environmental impact.
Lee is currently working on a farmhouse retrofit and extension in East Sussex and the Glyndebourne Opera Croquet Pavilion, a project focused on the use of local, bio-based and waste materials and designed for deconstruction.
Before joining Baker Brown Lee worked in Athens, Prague and London on a variety of project types, stages and scales. This includes a two-story rooftop extension above an occupied art deco building, a 700-home canal side masterplan in Birmingham and an 8,000sqm affordable housing scheme in north London.
In 2021 Lee gained his Passive House Accreditation, developing his expertise and passion for buildings that are sustainable and optimise the comfort of occupants.
Job Titles:
- Client Project Manager, Jamie 's Farm
This book is full of positive stories, with tangible examples of projects that will inspire designers young and old to "mine the Anthropocene". Politicians respond to ideas that have real, demonstrable examples backing them up. The Re-Use Atlas is full of those. I hope people get inspired, take note and take action.
Rebecca is our Practice Manager and commenced her evolving role in February 2016.
Her role is diverse with a predominant focus on client liaison, director support, team communication/assistance and practice management.
Coming from an administrative background Rebecca gained her experience through local Sussex companies specialising in Construction and Property. Prior to this Rebecca studied Interior Architecture at Brighton University which widened her interest in the built environment.
She is currently involved in all live BakerBrown projects and emerging work, providing oversight on project management and financial direction.
Job Titles:
- Journalist & Design Critic / Co - Founder of Design Museum
One of the smoothest and most enjoyable projects that I have been involved in.
Tiziana is an Architect with a not-so-secret love for construction waste reuse and minimisation, who joined BakerBrown in September 2021.
She is currently involved with several projects, including new and retrofit residential, a council-wide retrofit study and community buildings. The projects are across South-East England and London.
Throughout her career she has built on her interest for sustainable practice, studying at the Centre for Alternative Technology and working on several initiatives aimed at bringing industry wide change. These include co-founding award winning Re-Fabricate, a collective promoting circular economy in construction. Through the collective, Tiziana is currently involved in the core team organising projects such as "the People Pavilion", a design competition for young adults (15-18 yo) initiated by Beyond the Box CIC and "Seats at the Table", a co-design venture looking at accessible and sustainable public realm interventions for which Re-Fabricate and the DisOrdinary Architecture Project are collaborating with students from SEN and mainstream schools as well as disabled artists to co-design a urban intervention, where everyone can get have their say.
In the past, she has also been involved in the Architects Climate Action Network, where she has worked on several proposals including building a Climate Confession Booth and organising a bid for COP26.
In her free time, Tiziana enjoys building furniture out of "waste", of which her house is well populated.
Prior to her involvement with BakerBrown, she worked at Foster + Partners as an architectural assistant and then architect. At the world-renowned practice, she gained invaluable experience delivering and coordinating developments in a variety of sectors, for private clients as well as large developers in the UK, Europe, US, China and India.
Tom has worked with BakerBrown since 2007 where he cut his teeth on ‘The House That Kevin Built' for Grand Designs Live on Channel 4.
Since then, he has worked on many of the practice's best known and most innovative award-winning projects, including The Brighton Waste House, Little England Farm and several large social housing schemes. Tom is a brilliant designer with a long track record of delivering beautiful buildings made from unusual components, whether that is waste or material from the ever-growing range of non-toxic, carbon-locking organic things gradually populating every sustainable architect's pallet.
Tom has worked on wide variety of retrofit projects ranging from small dwellings and public buildings to large office buildings, social housing blocks and commercial units. He also has extensive experience with new build projects from one-off homes through to large-scale affordable housing and community-focused buildings. Tom has experience with public consultations, exhibitions and presentations and is currently working with several local authorities on strategising for the de-carbonisation of their housing stock.