About Isabel Allen
Isabel Allen is the Editor of Architecture Today and the Editorial Director of BEAM (Built Environment and Architecture Media), founded in 2021 to provide the construction industry with a multi-media platform for interdisciplinary learning and collaboration. Highly experienced in her field, Isabel was previously editor of the AJ and has spearheaded the launch of numerous initiatives including the Architecture Today Awards for buildings that stand the test of time and the Regenerative Architecture Index launched in partnership with Architects Declare. Alongside a career as an editor, curator and critic she also co-founded HAB Housing, which delivered low-cost housing using natural materials and innovative models of procurement, land ownership and finance. She is an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA.Phil Coffey
Isabel Allen2022-11-22T12:13:37+00:00The urgent threat of climate catastrophe has taught Phil Coffey to look at – and to photograph – the city in a completely different way.
Steve McIntyre and Ashley Welch in conversation with Isabel Allen
Isabel Allen2022-05-11T11:59:45+01:00Biodiversity net gain, using artificial intelligence to assess habitats remotely, natural capital accounting and the challenge of influencing business decisions in a free market world.
Deborah Saunt and James Fox in conversation with Isabel Allen
Isabel Allen2021-10-05T12:23:37+01:00Exchange Square, the value of a natural haven in a highly corporate world and the futility of trying to predict the way wildlife behaves and landscapes evolve.
Phil Askew and Neil Mattinson in conversation with Isabel Allen
Isabel Allen2021-10-01T14:19:58+01:00Transforming Thamesmead, blending brutalism and biodiversity, natural capital accounting, Living in the Landscape and delivering a vision for a post-pandemic world.
David Lea
Isabel Allen2022-11-22T12:13:37+00:00Throughout a career spanning over half a century David Lea has sought to design low impact buildings that bring people into a closer relationship with the natural world.
David Ogunmuyiwa
Isabel Allen2022-11-22T12:13:38+00:00David Ogunmuyiwa values the connection between practice, personal experience and community and works within a few minutes’ walk of buildings that have shaped his life.
Sara Edmonds and Sam Turner in conversation with Isabel Allen
Isabel Allen2021-10-04T12:23:28+01:00The Architects Climate Action Network, collective action, change-making, giving the RIBA a run for its money and channelling positive energy into the race against the clock.
Zoë Berman
Isabel Allen2022-11-22T12:13:38+00:00Zoë Berman enjoys Oxford's charms but finds its gates and high walls at odds with the openness, generosity and curiosity that characterise her teaching and practice.
Charles Thomson and Claire Barton in conversation with Isabel Allen
Isabel Allen2021-08-20T11:57:40+01:00Working on school buildings, making sense of masterplans and the challenges involved in wrapping an existing building in a new exoskeleton and an entirely new facade.
David Walker
Isabel Allen2022-11-22T12:13:39+00:00David Walker believes architects have a responsibility to articulate an optimistic vision of a future that is more sustainable and less frenetic than the world we live in now.
Helen Arvanitakis and Adam Khan in conversation with Isabel Allen
Isabel Allen2021-08-20T11:58:39+01:00The Greenwich Design District, designing a new part of the city and the distinction between delivering a characterful masterplan of separate parts and building an architectural zoo.
