BA(Hons)

Amy is our studio manager.

She has worked across creative industries, architecture and regeneration both as a freelance artist and designer and through in-house roles in marketing and comms, events and studio management.

Her background includes a degree in illustration from the Arts University Bournemouth, where she’s also worked as a visiting tutor on BA illustration.

When she’s not in the Erect studio, Amy works on art and design projects and delivers participatory arts workshops for non-profits. She’s happiest when making something with her hands and is passionate about design that has a social impact and engages with communities.

Dipl Ing Arch RIBA

Barbara is a founding director of Erect Architecture and an RIBA Chartered and ARB registered architect with 15 years professional experience in the UK and 20 years in total. Barbara enjoys the capacity of small practice to be agile, innovate and experiment and thrives on creating places that are positive drivers for change. She is experienced in leading teams and working with complex client, stakeholder and user groups to deliver architectural and public realm projects. Barbara is a member of the Camden Design and the Croydon Place Review Panel.

Barbara’s wish to support small, creative practice has led her to join the RIBA Small Practice Panel, which she chairs since 2018. There she co-organises the annual Guerrilla Tactics conference, focussing on innovation and business skills for young and small architecture practices.

Before moving to London in 2002 Barbara lived and worked in Los Angeles, Berlin and Vienna. She studied Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of the Arts Berlin and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

BA (Hons)

Elliott is passionate about sustainable and playful design and how architecture and urban design can encourage social change. Since graduating from Manchester School of Architecture in 2017, Elliott has worked in two offices, built classrooms in Ghana, constructed a bar and wooden flat pack housing at music festivals, charity fund-raised on the streets of London, and worked as a teacher for a charity school.

Now, Elliott spends his time between the Erect studio and the London School of Architecture where he is studying for his masters. Beyond design, Elliott enjoys being active; be it running, cycling, roller skating, dancing, yoga-ing or swimming in the sea.

BA MA

Nele has a great interest in the historical, social and political complexity of societies and how this can be explored through architecture and urban-scale strategies.

She completed her Bachelors and Masters degree in Copenhagen at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture and has professional experience working in London, Copenhagen and Berlin. Through her work and studies Nele has gained a passion for studying the nuanced intricacies of spaces and how these can offer both physical and social qualities. Her thesis project presented a strategy for sustaining and regenerating a neglected small town in Denmark through creating new social spaces for existing local communities and with it a new socially oriented infrastructure to link them on an urban scale.

BA(Hons) AADip

Nick is an experienced public realm designer, delivering projects within central London including the transformation of Hanover Square whilst a Senior Urban Designer at Publica Associates. He is also passionate about education and has previously led design studios at Oxford Brookes University and Chelsea College of Arts, and is currently a visiting technology tutor at the Architectural Association. He has led workshops with children and adult learners at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tate Modern. 

Outside the office he is interested in writing and research and in 2017 he co-published, Comachines: A Handbook to Mobile Disruptive Architectures with ON/OFF. Nick was an Arts and Culture Fellow at the University of Exeter in 2018 undertaking research on spaces of learning and their effect on faculty to faculty collaboration. He co-authored the paper Nurturing innovation and creativity in educational practice which was published in 2019. 

BSc(Hons) MArchD ARB

Marta is interested in the intrinsic bond between people and place, and in how a better built environment can contribute to social well-being. She wants to use her shaping abilities as an architect to create more inspiring, sustainable and lasting places.

Marta studied at the University of Bath, where she centred her thesis on exploring the role that buildings play in helping or hindering the development of young children, and at Oxford Brookes University, where she completed her MArchD whilst doing a specialisation in International Development and Humanitarian Practice. Prior to joining Erect, she worked at Daykin Marshall Studio, running projects through all RIBA workstages. She has also worked for EMBT Miralles Tagliabue in Barcelona, participated in several community self-build projects, and co-authored a study for NGO CARE International evaluating the success of self-recovery humanitarian shelter programmes in the Philippines. Marta is a UK registered architect. 

Nozomi Nakabayashi grew up in Tokyo, Japan where her interests in architecture grew through observing people's everyday life. She enjoys the variety of works involving architecture and has previously worked both as the designer and maker of some of her projects. Her Hut on Stilts was shortlisted for the AJ Small Projects Award. 

Nozomi holds a Master of Architecture from the Architectural Association Design & Make programme, where she was part of the core team building the Big Shed and a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice School of Architecture. She enjoys playing the Oud & practicing Kung Fu in her spare time.

DipArch MSc RIBA
 
Susanne is a director and founding member of Erect Architecture. She is a registered architect and RIBA member with 21 years professional experience, delivering architecture and public realm projects for complex stakeholder and user groups. She is a member of the Hackney, Harrow and Haringay Design Quality Review Panels as well as an acting Quinquennial Inspector.

Susanne is a visiting critic at several architecture schools, practice mentor at the LSA and tutors during the annual summer school ‘Studio in the Woods’. She holds a Master in Architectural History from University College London. Keen to combine architecture and research, particularly related to Health and Wellbeing, she lead the NHS funded award-winning pilot project Camden Active Spaces for Erect. 

Tom’s varied career has taken in professional and academic institutions across the UK and to date has covered social geography, architectural technology and pure design. Qualifications from the University of Bristol, Bolton University and Oxford Brookes University have been most recently complemented by a Masters from the Royal College of Art.  

After over a decade working in technical and job-running roles he has garnered experience of a full range of architectural project types though all work stages, from high end residential, pre-fabricated housing, offices, masterplanning, light industrial and listed buildings to name a few.  

Tom’s chief research interests include the analysis of the implementation of architectural theory in real-world settings and the development of technical innovation to address social issues.  The latter was most recently exhibited through his work at the RCA which included a duo of proposals which circumvented the ‘housing crisis’ by offering homes which can exist outside of the UK housing market.