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 illustration 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)

Eira’s heart is split between the complexity of the city and the beauty of nature and she aims, through architecture as well as through other media, to merge the two with the human individual at its core. She has previously worked on large housing schemes in and around London and has volunteered on a number of structural art projects in Nevada. 

Eira has lived and studied in four countries. The world is her home, London her anchor. She graduated from the University of Westminster with a First Class Honours degree in 2015 and an award for detailed technical design. She is currently dividing her time between working with Erect Architecture and studying at The London School of Architecture .

BA(Hons) AADip

Jack has worked on a range of award-winning playspace projects since 2013 including Alexandra Road Park, Jellicoe Water Gardens and Camden Active Spaces. He previously worked in public realm design & research at Publica Associates, and currently teaches first year Architecture at Oxford Brookes University.  

Jack completed his diploma at the Architectural Association where he was awarded the Mark Fisher Scholarship. His thesis project was the creation of an all-school parade featuring a giant inflatable toad. 

Outside the studio, Jack designs and builds artworks with playful themes, and recently had an exhibition of his rocking furniture at the London Design Festival.

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.

BSc MArch PgDip

Prior to joining Erect, Sarah worked on heritage & cultural projects including a Welcome Centre for a listed art gallery. She was a Research Assistant for the Cardiff University Community Gateway Research where she tested approaches to community engagement and she currently teaches a first year unit at the Welsh School of Architecture. 

Sarah graduated from the WSA with a first class award in her Masters. She was awarded a travel scholarship after her BSc studies and won the T Alwyn Lloyd Memorial Prize in her MArch. She was also nominated for the Wallpaper* Graduate Directory. Sarah recently passed her Part 3 studies at Greenwich University and is a qualified architect. 

You can normally find Sarah posting on the Erect Instagram, but when she isn't, she is running through the canals of London & building her research around feminist practice.

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.