Our People

Paul Duckett – Director
RIBA, ARB
What is your favourite City?
Rome
What music are you currently listening to?
Coldplay
What hobbies are you on with at the moment?
Gardening and relandscaping

Julian Handy – Director
RIBA, ARB, RIBA Conservation Registrant
What is your favourite City?
Valencia and San Francisco
What music are you currently listening to?
Sting
What hobbies are you on with at the moment?
Getting my chain saw out and cutting wood, walking dogs, cutting grass, travelling

Lee Donner – Director
RIBA, ARB
What is your favourite City?
Stockholm
What music are you currently listening to?
I am going through my Ben Folds Five back catalogue
What hobbies are you on with at the moment?
Home renovations and restoring my 60s Vespa

Mark Osten – Architect
ARB
What is your favourite City?
Too many to choose, possibly Budapest
What music are you currently listening to?
Everything and anything, from Fred Again to Karol G
What hobbies are you on with at the moment?
When I’m not park running, you’ll find me in the pool

Steve Galloway – Architectural Technician
3 years twoards BSc in architectural technology, MCIAT affiliate
What is your favourite City?
Lisbon
What music are you currently listening to?
Pearl Jam
What hobbies are you on with at the moment?
Table Tennis

Jo Kanzler – Architectural Technologist
RIBA Part 1 & 2
What is your favourite City?
Berlin and Glasgow… but there maybe others I haven’t discovered
What music are you currently listening to?
Fontaines DC and any other Indie music
What hobbies are you on with at the moment?
DIY, hill walking and cat observing

Chloe Barker – Architectural Assistant
RIBA Part 1, Part 2 underway
What is your favourite City?
Reykjavik
What music are you currently listening to?
Switching between Paolo Nutini and The Red Clay Strays
What hobbies are you on with at the moment?
I enjoy running and walking the fells

Josh Lewis-Lennon – Architectural Assistant
RIBA Part 1, Part 2 underway
What is your favourite City?
Rome and Glasgow
What music are you currently listening to?
Again by Kiwi (Local Band), & Artic Monkeys generally
What hobbies are you on with at the moment?
I enjoy doing some DIY and landscaping

Matt Austin – Architectural Assistant
RIBA Part 1
What is your favourite City?
Berlin for sure, the public transport was impeccable along with the art, parks (and food, naturally).
What music are you currently listening to?
A bit of everything to be honest, but especially Buble
What hobbies are you on with at the moment?
I do very much enjoy some reading and playing my guitar, when (if) I get the time

Isobel Taylor – Architectural Assistant
RIBA Part 2
What is your favourite City?
Aarhus
What music are you currently listening to?
TN
What hobbies are you on with at the moment?
Climbing, drawing, anything in the mountains or in the sea

Rachel Simm – Architectural Assistant & Administator
RIBA Part 1
What is your favourite City?
St. James – Barbados
What music are you currently listening to?
Outnumbered – Dermot Kennedy
What hobbies are you on with at the moment?
Doing a painting for an art gallery and writing a recipe book
