Field of Traces
Structure and material hold memory
My work examines the evidence
Thoughts about Practice
As a practising architect specialising in complex industrial heritage sites, I spend much of my professional life considering the survival of buildings, the significance embedded within them, and why we choose to care.
My research-led photographic practice examines the material and emotional life of buildings through photography, text, drawing and site-responsive installation. Rooted in the study and care of cultural heritage, the work considers buildings as active bodies that hold evidence of use, change, repair and human occupation. It brings contemporary photography and artistic research into direct conversation with historic sites, archives and conservation practice.
I ask what structures remember.
Awards
2026 RIBA South West and Wessex
Project Architect of the Year 2026
Project Winner
Client of the Year
2026 Civic Trust Award
2026 Civiic Trust - Highly Recommended
2025 AJ Retrofit of the Year
AJ Retrofit - Conservation Project under £5m
2025 Cornish Building Group - Award
2025 Cornish Building Group - UNESCO Site - Award
2025 National Railway Heritage Award -
Best Overall - 2025
2025 Somerset Building Preservation Trust - Highly
Commended
2024 Surface of the Year
2024 Somerset Building Preservation Trust -
Research Award
Talks / Lectures
2026 RIBA ReWork Conference
2026 SAVE - Building at Risk Launch Lecture 2026
2026 Working with Industrial Memory, Terrain
Talks, Plymouth
2026 The Association for Preservation Technology
International - UK Tour Building Visit & Talk
2025 Cornish Building Group
2025 Falmouth University - Sustainable
Regeneration
2025 Salford University - Studio Talk -
Sustainable Heritage
2025 RIBA / AHF Conference - Funding Landscape
2025 Frome Society for Local Studies
2024 SPAB Scholars visit & Building Tour
2024 Historic England Technical Tuesday Seminar
2022 Bath University Lecture
2022 Tone Works Conference (initiated by Thread)
2022 Firm Foundations Speaker
2021 Museum of East Dorset
2021 Dublin School of Architecture
2020 RIBA Guerilla Tactics Conference
2020 Dublin School of Architecture
2019 Wiveliscombe Civic and Historical Society
2018 West Somerset Community Land Trust
2018 Somerset Archeological & Natural History
Society
2018 Wiveliscombe Primary School - Workshop
2017 Plymouth University - State of the Profession
Symposium
2016 Plymouth University - PADS Talk
2016 Exmoor Archeology Forum
2015 Wiveliscombe Civic Society Talk
Publications
Architects Journal
Architects Journal Specification
RIBA J
Architecture Today
The Architectural Review
Glass International
Qualifications
MA(Hons) M(Arch) ARB RIBA AABC
2025 - 2027 MA Professional Photography
Oxford Brookes University
2015 Architect Accredited in Building
Conservation (AABC)
(re-accredited 2026 - 2031)
2012 DAC Registered Architect
2006 Royal Institute of British
Architects (RIBA)
2006 Chartered Architect,ARB
2006 Certificate of Architectural
Professional Practice
(RIBA Part III)
University of Plymouth
2002 M(Arch) (RIBA Part II),
University of Edinburgh
2000 MA(Hons) - (RIBA Part I)
First Class Honours,
University of Edinburgh
Appointments
2026-2031 External Examiner (MA) University of
Plymouth
2016-2020 Visiting Lecturer, University of Bath
2012-2016 Trustee - Wiveliscombe Town Hall
Building Preservation Trust
2012 Bath and West Diocese List of Approved
Architects
2012 Exeter Diocese List of Approved
Architects
Experience
2012 Architectural Thread Ltd (currrent)
Founder, Director & Project Architect
2005-2012 Louise Crossman Architects
2002-2005 Thomas Architects, Wells, Somerset
2001-2003 Everett Everett Fine Art,
Picture Restoration & Conservation
(Fine Art Conservator Apprenticeship)
2000 Conservation Work on Cistercian Abbey,
Clare Island, Ireland
1999 National Gallery Design Studio, London
(Placement - Assistant)
1999 Royal Fine Art Commission for
Scotland, Edinburgh -
Assistant Curator
1995 S.O.C. Rava & C.r.s.l, Art &
Architectural Restorers, Turin, Italy