Pierre has 25 years of international design and consulting experience, having worked in the UK, The Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Japan.
He has been a Board Trustee of the RIBA and is a past President of the Royal Society of Architects in Wales. Pierre has a Masters in Business Administration and specialises in aligning building design with clients’ business goals.
He has been Chair of Stride Treglown since 2022.
Pierre, what is your favourite project to date?
It’s also my most hated project, but it’s the one I cut my teeth on and learnt the most from: the new offices for Pringle Brandon Architects in London. Being project architect for the new home of a firm of architects is a stress fest, but it taught me a huge amount (not least to check that the drains aren’t filled with builders’ rubble before the grand champagne opening).
Best book you’ve ever read?
On architecture it would be Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language because it puts people at the centre of design thinking. And then there’s Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald; it is the truest account I’ve ever read of what it feels like to fumble around for meaning in life.
Who is your biggest career influence?
John Worthington, co-founder of DEGW, because he was wonderful to work with, has never lost his curiosity, and is so good at encouraging people to follow their path.
What advice would you give your 20 year old self?
Stop blimmin’ overthinking everything. Work on your resilience – good and bad stuff will happen to you, and none of it defines you. The only thing that defines you is how you pick yourself up from setbacks.
Industry Bodies:
- Pierre writes and speaks regularly on design issues
- He has been a judge for RIBA, Civic Trust and Constructing Excellence Wales Innovation awards
- RIBA Client Design Adviser 2021- present
- CBI: Southwest Regional Council member 2021- present
- B Corp Ambassador 2022-present
- Quality of Life Foundation: Associate, 2022-present
Awards:
- 2023 Building Magazine Employer of the Year (Stride Treglown)
- 2019, 2020 and 2021 Architectural Firm of the Year, Insider Property Wales (As Director of Stride Treglown’s South Wales office)
- 2016 RICS Regeneration project of the year, Bay Campus, Swansea University, Swansea
- The General Offices, Ebbw Vale, RICS Conservation Project of the Year 2012
- Swansea University Constructing Excellence Wales Integration and Collaboration Award 2012
