In this issue: The Regenerative Architecture Index 2025 unveiled; Material Cultures, Purcell, and Marks Barfield on regenerative practice; Collective Works and Jan Kattein Architects on creating a just space for people; and Beau Lotto on why Bruton is his kind of town.
The Armadillo at Houghton Music & Arts Festival, by Unknown Works – the first exposed eucalyptus CLT structure in the world. Photograph by Henry Woide.
This issue is dedicated to the Regenerative Architecture Index 2025. Launched a year ago by Architecture Today and Architects Declare UK, the RAI has taken on a life of its own. While there were 64 practices in the inaugural RAI, there are 116 organisations on this year’s list: architectural practices of every size, plus a smattering of landscape architects and engineers.
We are enormously grateful to Architects Declare for dedicating so much time to the herculean task of assessing and debating the submissions. And to Broadway Malyan for hosting the 2025 RAI party at its studios; Camlins Landscape Architects for supplying the booze; and Schüco, who have come on board as RAI partners for 2025 and 2026.
Perhaps most of all, we are grateful to the clients who have recognised the RAI as a means of fraternising with like-minded practitioners, swapping knowledge and ideas and – crucially – identifying architects who share their values and are ready and able to help them to realise their vision.
Wildheart Trust CEO Lawrence Bates spoke at the inaugural RAI party, outlining his then nascent plans for an International School
of Rewilding and Regenerative Agriculture (ISORaRA) at Sandown on the Isle of Wight. A few months later he invited RAI practices to submit Expressions of Interest to join the design team for the school. He announces the shortlist – and the thinking behind the selection panel’s decisions – on page 72.
Neuroscientist and educator Beau Lotto took this year’s RAI party as an opportunity to share his thinking about the transition to a regenerative future, and to unveil his vision for a school designed to engender a symbiotic relationship with the wider community and the natural world. RAI practices will be invited to submit Expressions
of Interest later in the year.
The dream is that the RAI becomes, not just a professional community, but a nuanced ecosystem with the vision, skills and resources to create a better world.
Inside the September-October 2025 issue of Architecture Today:
- The Regenerative Architecture Index 2025 unveiled.
- Material Cultures and Purcell share their approach to being a good ancestor to future generations.
- Exploration Architecture and Marks Barfield Architects explain how their practice addresses the need to co-evolve with nature.
- Collective Works and Jan Kattein Architects share the thinking that informs their approach to creating a just space for people.
- Lawrence Bates, CEO of The Wildheart Trust reveals the shortlisted practices to design the new International School of Rewilding and Regenerative Agriculture at Sandown on the Isle of Wight
- Neuro-scientist and educationalist Beau Lotto explains why Bruton in Somerset is his kind of town.
