Reinventing practice
Participating practices in the Regenerative Architecture Index discuss the challenges they face.
Portraits by Timothy Soar
Pardini Hall
Elisa Pardini and Robert Hall's approach to architecture is shaped by a mix of English and Italian influences including the countryside around Lucca in Pardini's native Italy.
Enzo Favro
For Enzo Favro, regenerative design is about looking beyond a building's immediate impact to the legacy it leaves behind. The Director of In Opera Group explains why natural stone, terrazzo and a long-term approach to material value are central to creating places that last.
Marcus Lee
Marcus Lee of LEEP Architects talks to AT about materials investigation, experimentation, designing for change and an 'agri-industrial' ethos that celebrates the raw aesthetic of agricultural infrastructure.
Camille Chevrier
Engineer Camille Chevrier discusses the central role that applied research – from revisiting craft, to using robotic or digital-assisted construction methods – plays in the practice's work.
Studio SAAR
Studio SAAR reflect on designing across cultures and climates – combining vernacular wisdom, circular material strategies and ecological thinking to create places that strengthen communities and landscapes alike.
Carol Costello, Cullinan Studio
From pioneering employee ownership and collaborative procurement to championing low-energy design, retrofit and nature-led architecture, Carol Costello explains how Cullinan Studio is evolving its founding ideals to meet the challenges of a changing world.
Hamilton Hay Van Jonker
From their base in a refurbished victorian school in central Glasgow, Hamilton Hay Van Jonker speak to AT about their love of continuity and change, 'Speed Mentoring', and what it's like to work as 'one chapter in a building's long history'.
Barr Gazetas
Having scored the highest of any UK-based architecture practice when receiving B-corp certification in 2024, Barr Gazetas is reinventing practice by proving commercial retrofit can be radically ethical, delivering lasting value for clients, communities and the public realm.
Collective Works
Collective Works discuss challenging received wisdom and the imperfect systems which are causing harm, and using the language of the seasons to frame the rhythm of company life.
Jan Kattein Architects
Jan Kattein Architects reflect on 15 years of retention, re-use, repurposing and repair – and giving an antique gramophone horn a brand new steam-punk lease of life.
Purcell
Purcell discusses the challenges involved in maintaining and adapting our built heritage to meet the needs of today whilst planning for a more resilient tomorrow.
Material Cultures
Material Cultures explain how they are challenging conventional construction cultures in a bid to bring architecture closer to agriculture, land management and landscape.