I studied architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture, graduating with a first-class degree in 2018. My Part I was at CASA Architects in Bath, where I worked across all project stages and developed a specialism in architectural visualisation. I left at the end of 2019 intending to work as a freelance arch-viz artist, however moving into 2020 the pandemic made this infeasible.

Work in the industry dried up due to furlough, so I looked for something less effected by the pandemic and ended up in stone masonry, restoring churches and historic buildings. It wasn’t a fallback for long; I found real satisfaction in the craft. My first project was a 13th-century Grade II* round-tower church, working up a scaffold in the dead of winter with a small team of masons. The work was physical, direct and tangible in a way architecture rarely is, and it grounded me in the realities of construction and conservation.

Between 2020 and 2021 I worked on a range of listed buildings and monuments. Alongside this I started experimenting with photogrammetry, recognising how 3D capture could support conservation work where traditional survey methods struggled, complex geometry, irregular orientation and fragile fabric.

In 2022 I moved into site management and then project management, running renovation and conversion projects and coordinating multiple teams. It was useful experience, but by 2023 it was clear I’d drifted away from design longer than intended. To correct course, I entered the “House of the Future” competition by Buildner. Out of roughly 3,500 entries, my proposal placed third, and in 2024 I was invited to Dubai to meet the Crown Prince and received a €20,000 award.

That confirmed the direction I needed to return to. I wrapped up the projects I was managing and shifted back into design full-time, setting up as a freelance architectural designer. The mix of architectural training, hands-on heritage work and on-site management shaped a practice that’s design-led but grounded in construction, material understanding and contextual sensitivity.

Since then, I’ve continued to develop my work across architecture, visualisation and conservation. My entry for Microhome 24/25 won first place (€40,000), reinforcing the value of that combined approach. Over the past year I’ve delivered projects ranging from heritage assessments to contemporary residential design and high-end visualisation work, each informed by the same emphasis on clarity, craft and conservation.

You can explore that work here.