Matt has a passion for sensitively designed projects that enrich and enhance their surroundings.
He champions design from inception to completion and views mixed-use schemes as catalysts for wider regeneration and placemaking. He works in the mixed use and retail team and is also one of the Revit design champions in Bristol.
What is the current big trend in your sector?
Mixed use and retail is an exciting and ever-changing sector. With the now ubiquitous nature of online retail, the most successful centres of towns and cities have reinvented themselves in recent years from being utility-focused into experience-based spaces. It is becoming rarer to design buildings in urban centres with a single use in mind, which is a wholly positive trend towards a more dynamic and exciting type of urbanism (despite the challenges that this can sometime present!).
Biggest life influence?
Travel, in all its forms, is the single greatest source of inspiration we can ask for as architects! I often find myself using experiences or memories of places I have visited to help generate creative responses to a particular brief or problem.
If you weren’t in this career, what would you be?
Interesting thought… I am happiest being outdoors and in nature, walking, cycling, hiking… so perhaps a grounds keeper at a national park.
Pet hate?
I love all pets (bar, spiders)
Where do you see your career taking you?
I have been very fortunate to have worked on a broad range of project types, sectors, and scales for private and public sectors clients. This has given me a varied and exciting career to date. Long may this continue with its multiple strands, as well as opportunities to change focus as time goes on.
Industry bodies:
- ARB – Architect
- Construction Skills Centre – Bristol Property Awards, Civic Development
