Our Team
Leadership
OSCR is the initials of its founders. Thirty-seven years on, each still leads projects, chairs crits, and signs the drawings.
Founding Principal — Architecture
Founded the studio in 1989 after a decade in structural engineering. Leads the studio's cultural and civic work — Aria Centre, Lumen Gallery, Vertex Pavilion — and chairs the Tuesday crit. Believes every building deserves one argument per millimetre.
Founding Principal — Design
Co-founder and the studio's design conscience. Author of the massing discipline behind Meridian Tower; leads residential work from Obsidian Ridge to Tecton Court. Has never presented a scheme she could not also build in card by Friday.
Design Principal — Computation
Joined 1993 from aerospace engineering; founded the studio's computation group. Form-found the Vertex shell through four thousand generations, and teaches the studio's annual structural intuition course with a bag of oranges and a rope.
Managing Principal
Fourth initial and keeper of the studio's economics. Runs the three offices, the commission intake, and the rule that OSCR turns down more work than it accepts. Trained as an architect in Lyon; practises management as a design discipline.
Direction
Each discipline is directed by a specialist with the authority — and the tenure — to say no.
Technical Director
Twenty years turning competition sketches into weathertight buildings. Delivered Meridian Tower and the Cartwright Institute; keeps the studio's 1:5 junction library, all 4,000 of them.
Director of Sustainability
Climate scientist turned architect; author of the OSCR Carbon Handbook, now in its third edition. Every project's embodied carbon passes her desk before it passes any planning committee.
Director of Urban Design
Masterplanner of Portside, Lisbon, and before it two Scandinavian waterfronts. Plans on decades-long timetables and writes the parts that must not change as carefully as the parts that will.
Director of Interiors
Trained in Dakar and Milan; leads the interiors group and the workshop below the London studio. Her furniture for the Halcyon Hotel is now in permanent production — the studio's first, deliberately slow, product line.
Studio Life
Careers
The studio hires a handful of architects, makers and researchers each year — portfolio over pedigree, always. Speculative applications are read by a principal, not a scanner.
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