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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Director operating in the Architecture space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Daniel Ringelstein
Director of Urban Design and Planning of Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)
Dan Ringelstein brings a Design Director – City Design Practice – Skidmore Owings & Merrill (Europe) LLP (SOM)
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About Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM): Skidmore, Owings & Merrill operates as an architectural, interior design, engineering, and urban planning company.
Benoit Pagotto
Co-Founder – Marketing Director of IVR nation
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About IVR nation: High end interactive Virtual reality experiences that have the power to changes industries.
Olivier Demangel
Founder – Design Director of IVR nation
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About IVR nation: High end interactive Virtual reality experiences that have the power to changes industries.
Andrew Ridgers
European Sales Director of Belarc
Andy has been involved in the invention, design and introduction of products to make data easier to use with companies like Prime Computer (networked administration), VMARK, Ascential (data integration), Story Street Partners and Thomson Financial (data integration and collation).
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About Belarc: Belarc’s cloud architecture allows users to simplify and automate the management of all of their desktops, servers and laptops
Christos Passas
Director of Zaha Hadid Architects
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About Zaha Hadid Architects: We work at all scales and in all sectors. We create transformative cultural, corporate, residential and other spaces .
Sara Klomps
Director of Zaha Hadid Architects
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About Zaha Hadid Architects: We work at all scales and in all sectors. We create transformative cultural, corporate, residential and other spaces .
Jim Heverin
Director of Zaha Hadid Architects
Jim joined us in 1997. He has worked on a variety of completed projects from pavilions to offices, museums and sports venues. He became an Associate Director in 2006 and Director in 2013, and currently is responsible for the overall management and delivery of key projects including the Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics. im has a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Aberdeen (1995) and a Diploma in Architecture from University of North London (1997). He has been registered with the ARB since 1999.
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About Zaha Hadid Architects: We work at all scales and in all sectors. We create transformative cultural, corporate, residential and other spaces .
Patrik Schumacher
Partner and Director of Zaha Hadid Architects
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About Zaha Hadid Architects: We work at all scales and in all sectors. We create transformative cultural, corporate, residential and other spaces .
Cristiano Ceccalo
Director of Zaha Hadid Architects
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About Zaha Hadid Architects: We work at all scales and in all sectors. We create transformative cultural, corporate, residential and other spaces .
Danny Campbell
Founder & Director of Hoko
Danny Campbell is the Founder & Director of Hoko & he Attended De Montfort University in 2015.
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About Hoko: Hoko is a architecture platform focus on customer service and design.
Frank Staiger
Founder, Managing Director of Via Studios
Frank Staiger is Managing Director and founder of Via Studios. He has over twelve years experience in online design, development and digital management with a growing and exciting client portfolio including both private and public sectors. He has worked with many art directors, studios, developers and clients during his career. Via is the engine room driving his unstoppable passion for the internet and the digital sector. What’s more, the experience he brings to projects mediates between excitement for new channels and a sound business sense of what will work to deliver on the bottom line. Before founding the company back in 1998, German-born Frank was working freelance for many years in the media industry, including production and team management for large magazine publications. He also worked in branding, graphic design, pre-production and typography for traditional advertising agencies across Manchester.
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About Via Studios: Online Design, Usability and Development
Julia Jones
Director of Serpentine Gallery
Julia Jones is Director @ Serpentine Gallery.
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About Serpentine Gallery: Serpentine Galleries are one of London’s best-loved galleries for modern and contemporary art.
Hans Obrist
Director of Serpentine Gallery
Hans Ulrich Obrist is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show “World Soup” (The Kitchen Show) in 1991 he has curated more than 250 shows. Obrist’s recent publications include A Brief History of Curating, Project Japan: Metabolism Talks with Rem Koolhaas, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating But Were Afraid to Ask, Do It: The Compendium, Think Like Clouds, Ai Weiwei Speaks, Sharp Tongues – Loose Lips – Open Eyes – Ears to the Ground, along with new volumes of his Conversation Series.
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About Serpentine Gallery: Serpentine Galleries are one of London’s best-loved galleries for modern and contemporary art.
Romill Bettany
Co-Founder and Engineering Director of Modulous
Romill Bettany is the co-founder and engineering director at Modulous.
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About Modulous: Redefining the design & delivery of affordable, sustainable & smart homes by leveraging disruptive digital technologies
Christiaan Klaassen
Partner / Director of DBOX
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About DBOX: DBOX a creative communications agency that builds brands and develops immersive marketing campaigns for the fields of property development.
Mauro Leuce
Associate Director of Atkins
Mauro is the Critical Mission Facilities Market Lead in Atkins and Technical Advisor for Data Centre projects. Atkins has extensive multidisciplinary experience in the data centre sector, ranging from the design of new facilities to major plants replacement, resilience and single point of failure due diligence studies and remedial works, in critical environments like National Energy Infrastructure, Government bodies and major transport hubs (i.e. airports and rail network). Mauro delivered the most innovative hyperscale Data Centres in Europe (i.e. 120MW average), acting as Project Director, Technical Reviewer and Subject Matter Expert for his Clients. He holds a Master in Electrical Engineering with a major in Automation of Power Systems.
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About Atkins: WS Atkins plc (commonly known as Atkins) is a British multinational engineering, design,
Paul Hannah
Associate Director and Innovation and Immersive Technology of Atkins
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About Atkins: WS Atkins plc (commonly known as Atkins) is a British multinational engineering, design,
Andrew Cox
Co-Founder, Fellow Director & Mechanical Engineer of Clear Water Revival
Fellow Director and co-founder Andrew Cox is a qualified mechanical engineer and has been involved in business and new product development of environmental technologies for over 13 years. He has considerable experience in product development including specification, design, patents, prototyping, project management, procurement, manufacturing and quality assurance. Previously Andrew has designed numerous award winning clean-tech products from wind turbines to solar products. Andrew’s industrial experience is wide ranging; he has established wind turbine production facilities in Wales, written and implemented numerous manufacturing quality standards and established steel fabrication facilities in Ukraine for production of solar PV carports. Andrew is responsible for new product development, business operations and rollout of new technology.
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About Clear Water Revival: Clear Water Revival is a leading company in the design and construction of natural swimming pools and natural swimming ponds.
Michal Konicek
Director of AccuCities
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About AccuCities: 3D London & 3D City Models for Planning, Architecture, CGI, BIM, VR, Games, 3D Printing
Michael Pawlyn
Director of Exploration Architecture
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About Exploration Architecture: The London based company has been described as a pioneer of biomimicry and is best known for innovative schemes.
