Architecture - Design - Research
Founder of Benjamin Wells Studio and Medium - a design and research collective based between London, Copenhagen and Rotterdam.
Unit leader at Cardiff University, exploring the potentials of adaptive reuse through play.
Project architect at Caruso St John Architects. Previously with Adam Khan Architects and Carmody Groarke.
Co-founder of Lot Projects - a project space in Hackney.
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Design
Master of Architecture from Political Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The Agonistic City was awarded several international prizes (see below) and exhibited in Copenhagen, Tbilisi, Madrid, Venice and Chengdu. One of fifteen projects across Europe shortlisted for the Fundació Mies van der Rohe YTAA 2018.
Project architect at Caruso St John Architects in London. Recently led the adaptive reuse of the Royale Belge in Brussels, which has won a Europa Nostra Heritage Award.
Previously held positions at Adam Khan Architects and Carmody Groarke - project architect for a Maggie’s Centre in Liverpool that received the Architects Journal Small Projects Award, two RIBA Awards and a Civic Trust Award.
BA (Hons) Architecture from the University of Sheffield with First Class Honours - awarded the Stephen Welsh Prize in Architecture and achieved the highest mark in over 10 years.
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Research
Unit leader for BA Architecture at Cardiff University, exploring the potentials of adaptive reuse through play.
Published research projects include Innovation by Design - five texts written to accompany the Danish pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale (commissioned by curator Natalie Mossin and the Danish Architecture Centre). Research and architectural criticism published in PLAT Journal, Blueprint, MONU, DAC, Hammock, BRACKET, Transient Space Journal, Dezeen, Bauwelt, Arkitekten, Arcspace and Archdaily, amongst others.
Invited scholar with On Cities at the Norman Foster Foundation in Madrid, led by MIT City Science Group. Invited participant at the UN Innovation Lab UNLEASH in Singapore, with other 'talents' from across a range of disciplines and geographies. Designed and built an installation for the International Union of Architects World Congress in Seoul.
Regular critic at institutions including the London School of Architecture, the Royal College of Art, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Central Saint Martins.
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Awards
Europa Nostra Heritage Award. Royale Belge with Caruso St John.
WAS Awards - First Prize. The Agonistic City
YTAA Award - Nominated and Shortlisted. The Agonistic City. Exhibited at the 2018 Venice Biennale
World Architecture Awards - Jury Winner. The Agonistic City
Social Tectonics competition - 2nd Prize. Ishinomaki Port. Exhibited in Copenhagen and Tokyo
Architects Journal Small Project Award - First Prize (Maggie's Merseyside with Carmody Groarke)
RIBA Award - Regional and Small Project Award (Maggie's Merseyside with Carmody Groarke)
The Stephen Welsh Prize in Architecture - (Sheffield University) York Cycle Station
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Features
KADK / interview with Dezeen / interview with ICON magazine / matter magazine / Tribune / Epiteszforum / Archdaily / StudArk / YTAA / ArchiStart / Design Tbilisi / Inspireli / Interview with Tbilisi Architecture Network / Interview with Hammock Magazine / World Architects / Future Architecture Platform
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Publications
