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KATE DARBY

Kate Darby is an RIBA chartered architect and principal of Kate Darby Architects. She studied architecture at the Bartlett and the Architectural Association and has combined practice with teaching since 1997. She has been leading an MArch design studio at WSA since 2012 looking at the connection between materials and place through the lens of making. She started the Local Adaptation unit with Gianni Botsford in 2018.

She has been a design tutor for Design and Make at the AA in Hooke Park, she has led an undergraduate design unit at the Bartlett and taught MArch at Bath University. She is a founding member of the annual Workshop, Studio in the Woods and has been a collaborator in the design practice Invisible Studio. In 2017 Kate Darby and David Connor won the AJ Small Project Award for their project, Croft Lodge Studio. This project also won a RIBA West Midlands Award and was a nominee in the Beazley Design of the Year 2017 Awards, hosted by the Design Museum.

Practice Statement:

Kate Darby Architects is an architecture and design practice based in Herefordshire with a focus on making place specific architecture through careful analysis of site, context and clients' requirements. KDA aims to make bespoke buildings that are locally distinctive and particular to the needs and characteristics of each commission.