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°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Fellow Members 2021

°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Fellow Members are inspirational Chartered Members who have made a real contribution to architecture and the community. Below, we give an overview of °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Fellow Membership and the assessment process, as well as announcing the eight new faces joining our list of °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Fellows for 2021 and outlining what makes them so inspirational.

°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Chartered Members, who through demonstrable evidence meet at least three out of five of the criteria, are eligible for Fellow Membership.

1. Have led or played a proactive role in a project that has had a positive social or environmental impact at a local, regional, national or international level
2. Have contributed to the advancement or thought leadership of the profession through education, research or technology
3. Have served on a local, regional, national or international working group that has effected change, influenced or supported the profession, architecture or built environment
4. Received an honour or an award for a significant contribution in architecture
5. Have made a significant contribution to architecture through local, regional, national or international initiatives and activities

Successful applicants are judged by our assessment panel, comprising of a diverse group of individuals who are renowned for their outstanding knowledge and contribution to architecture.

This year, our assessment panel were particularly impressed with the high standard of applications received and agreed that the following individuals would join the current list of inspirational °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Fellow Members.

Robert Barker F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ

• Co-founder of Stolon Studio, specialising in Sociable Architecture such as ‘Forest Mews’, winner of RICS residential development of the Year 2015 and other awards and commendations
• Jointly set up Baca Architects in 2003 and developed a specialism in Aquatecture and delivered the UK’s first ‘Amphibious House’
• Responsible for innovative flood-related projects which led to various accolades including: the °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ President's Award for Research in 2009, and a commendation in 2014 for the Long-term initiatives for Flood-risk Environments (LifE) project and the Climate Adaptive Neighbourhoods (CAN) project, respectively
• Co-author of the Metric Handbook Flood Aware Chapter (2015) and the °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ book – Aquatecture (2016). Robert also made written contributions to Cities and Flooding (2012 World Bank) Urban Flood Management (2010 Taylor Francis) and Flood Hazards – Impacts and Responses for the Built Environment (CRC Press)
• Part of the BRE team for the Flood Resilient Repair Home in Watford, a showcase for technological solutions to flood-resilient housing

Mark Dudek F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ

• Founder of Mark Dudek Associates, specialist education design consultant and award-winning design architect focusing on school and pre-school environments
• Design work over the past 20 years has included public and private sector education projects and residential and leisure developments such as the Glasshouse Cafe at RHS Wisley, UK
• Commissioned to design landmark innovation projects such as the Department for Education’s ‘Classroom of the Future’ at Yewlands Secondary School and has completed numerous nurseries, children’s centres, school refurbishment projects and high-end residential projects
• Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow at several architecture schools, UK and Internationally, most notably serving as a Research Fellow at Sheffield University School of Architecture, 1997 to 2014
• Prolific writer and has most recently completed an architectural biography entitled Practice: the Work of Stiff and Trevillion. His first book, Kindergarten Architecture, a comprehensive guide to early years architecture, was published in 1995 and was described as ‘a landmark publication’. The third edition of Schools and Kindergartens - a Design Manual, is being published by Birkhauser shortly.

Richard Frewer F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ

• Lead architect in award-winning ‘The International Garden Festival Hall’ in Liverpool in 1984. The hall and landscape attracted over three million visitors from around the world and was the recipient of various awards including the Civic Trust Award and °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Award
• As Chair of Architecture in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath, he championed the interdisciplinary design studio culture and, with his colleagues, assembled the first computer city model which was ultimately exploited beyond the university and became ‘mainstream’
• Later became Chair at the University of Hong Kong, where he identified a pressing need to establish Asia’s first and only master’s degree programme in interdisciplinary design & management
• Co-founded ‘The Green Room’ – a forum for research and practice in life cycle assessment, low-energy buildings and other environmentally friendly construction methods towards greater adoption in Hong Kong and China
• He has served on several working groups and judging panels, most notably the Steel Industry’s Architecture Committee in 1992, where, as First Chair, he helped to set up the Young Architect of the Year Awards. He is also an honorary member of HKIA

Wayne Head F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ

• Managing director of Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture and lead architect in award-winning projects ‘Revitalise Peckham Rye’ and ‘Morland Gardens’
• Director of ‘Big House of the Arts’ project which won the Civic Trust Award in 2014 and Norwich Arts Society award
• Founder and editor of ‘DETAILS – Volumes 1-5’ published by The Everyday Press which takes an in-depth look at architectural details and their overall impact
• CABE Design Council-appointed Built Environment Expert and serves on several regionally based design review panels. He is a formally appointed Public Governor to NHS HUHFT – Homerton University Hospital Hackney for five years
• °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Client Adviser and has been an °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Part 3 professional practice examiner for over five years. He is also a regular critic at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Westminster University School of Architecture

Henry Hepburn F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ

• Principal of Henry A. Hepburn Associates, Architects-Urban Planners-Interior Designers and Associate Professor at the University of The Bahamas. In collaboration with Florida A&M University, he engaged students to produce the first ever digital-based map of Nassau to identify historic buildings for the Antiquities, Monuments & Museums Corporation (AMMC)
• Former Coordinator of the architecture curriculum where he led the establishment of a professional Bachelor of Architecture Degree that is comparable to worldwide accredited programmes
• Founded the ‘Architecture Endowment Fund’ where he and other colleagues made personal donations to financially support young Bahamians in their higher education studies
• Former member of the Construction Seminar Group (CSG) Planning Committee and founding member of ‘Blueprint’ – local radio programme created to inform small/medium-sized construction practices of the latest technology in the industry. This was later expanded to include an exposition by local companies and was the first construction trade show (Bahamas Home and Builders Show) ever to be held in the Bahamas
• Received two awards from the Institute of Bahamian Architects (IBA) for Civic and Interior Architecture for ‘Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church,’ Hamilton, Long Island, Bahamas

Peter Jackson F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ

• Invited to join HH the Ruler’s Office, Sharjah and successfully initiated the ‘Heart of Sharjah’ Master plan, established a professional Historic Buildings Unit within the Heritage Department, prepared a Historic Buildings Register and oversaw restoration of Sharjah Souk, including archaeological survey and partial reconstruction, successfully maintaining its traditional life and vitality
• Other notable projects include designing and helping establish Garden Trade School in Lusaka, Zambia, providing training for employment where it was most desperately needed, and designing and implementing essential new growth point infrastructure with appropriate markets, bus shelters and public toilets throughout rural Zimbabwe, in the aftermath of its freedom war for independence
• Historical research and writing, contributed extensively to numerous architectural publications, and has won several prestigious awards including a 2016 Education Building of the Year Award, and a 2019 Agha Khan Architecture Award with X-Architects Wasit Wetland Interpretative Centre, for which he was client Architect Advisor
• Actively furthered local architectural education within the Zambia Institute of Architects and as Chairman of the Architects Council of Zimbabwe registration body, coordinated Part 3 professional training and examinations
• A founding member and Hon. Treasurer of the °ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ Gulf Chapter, securing both its legal recognition and premises for the Institute’s first Gulf office in Sharjah, UAE

Cameron Rashti F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ

• Director at AKTC where he led the ‘Historic Cities Programme’ which consisted of a portfolio of conservation, restoration and urban regeneration projects in various parts of the developing world with an emphasis on environmental and community socio-economic development and preservation of historic districts
• Projects included Al Azhar Cairo – a 32-hectare transformation of a barren urban site alongside the Ayyubid Walls of Historic Cairo into a metropolitan park
• Al Azhar Cairo has received over 1.7 million visitors per year since completion in 2006 and was awarded the 2005 Global Vision Award for Innovation (Travel + Leisure)
• Responsible for numerous publications relating to his work at AKTC, which have allowed for important research into complex urban systems in significant historic cities in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and South East Asia, many of them classified as UNESCO World Heritage Sites
• Since 2018, he has been a member of Politecnico di Milano Advisory Board which gathers academic and practising professionals to evaluate the educational path of the Faculty with regard to the current job market and civil society

Philip Watson F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ

• Led the team that designed two special needs schools in Barnsley as part of the Building Schools for the Future initiative. Most notably, Springwell Academy for social, emotional and mental health issues (SEMH), which was the subject of study visits by the British Council for School Environments and was highly commended in BCSE’s Design Awards in 2013
• Later co-authored a paper exploring how the kinaesthetic educational approach promoted at Springwell and the manifestation of this physically helped deliver a step-change in student outcomes. Leeds City Council subsequently adopted the Springwell model of delivery for all its SEMH provision and have recently completed a further three schools
• After initiating a study with Imperial College London to measure the impact of high quality, sustainable environments on people and their 'performance', Philip was granted funding to explore the creation of a new digital tool for engagement with building users. The resultant piece of work, 'WellBriefing’, won the AJ100 Best Use of Technology Award in 2017 with the judges recognising that the tool attempted to ‘make the invisible, visible’
• He led the team that created a further digital ‘Thoughtful Design Toolkit’ that seeks to define and deliver building occupant needs to support their wellbeing. This was shortlisted in the BCIA Digital Initiative of the Year 2020 and in the Building Awards Digital Innovation category, also in 2020
• In 2018 he was awarded ‘Visiting Professor’ at University of Leeds

The eight Fellows who have been elected represent a broad range of backgrounds and specialisms and continue to effect change from all corners of the globe. They will be joining our list of current Fellows.

• Errol Charles Alberga F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Charles Joseph James Andrews F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• John Sydney Assael F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Page Ayres Cowley F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Raj Barr-Kumar F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Donald Bates F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Harbinder Singh Birdi F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Richard Alexander Blenkharn F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• David Christopher Sturgess Bonnett F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Jason Michael Boyle F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Nelson K Chen F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Richard Coutts F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Nela Manjeri de Zoysa F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• David Dunbar F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Valerie Kathryn Evans F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Jonathan Mark Falkingham F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Richard Douglas Ferraro F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Joseph Bernard Fitzgerald F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Gordon Alexander Gibb F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Robert Charles Greenstreet F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Gary Haney F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Christopher John Heuvel F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Barrie Ho F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Tzena Nesheva James F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Alan Montgomery Jones F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Paul Keogh F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Dave King F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• David Edward King F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Martin Charles James Knight F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Khee Poh Lam F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Anna Lira Luis F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• John Adrian Lyall F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Robin William John Machell F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Peter Magyar F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Ingval Maxwell F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Hitesh Mehta F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• John Leonard Melvin F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Mervyn Keith Miller F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Maurizio Mucciola F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Teri Vivienne Daphne Okoro F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Adam Viorel Pantelimon-Negrut F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Valeria Passetti F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Wolf Wolfgang Pearlman F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Andrew Geoffrey Purves F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Robin Hayden Roberts F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Anwar Said F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Richard Gilbert Saxon F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Nasrine Seraji F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Roger Francis Stephenson F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• John Goold Stewart F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Helen Sian Taylor F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Ruffina Sharmila Thilakaratne F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Lanre Hubert Towry-Coker F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Peter Lindley Ullathorne F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Morley Stuart von Sternberg F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Stephen Nigel Burnham Waldron F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Nigel Hugh Walter F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• John Joseph Seymour Watts F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Keith Ronald Williams F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Sandra Woodall F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• James Macdonald Wright F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ
• Bernard Wilson Zingano F°ÄÃÅÍõÖÐÍõ