Pedro Gil

(he/him)

Director – BA(Hons), Dip.Arch, Dip.PP, ARB, RIBA

Pedro is passionate about the creative process of crafting buildings and the subtleties of designing for people, places, and communities. In 2021, he was appointed as one of 15 panel members for the Mayor of London’s Diversity in the Public Realm Commission. His lived experience, as a first generation migrant of Black-Colombian dual heritage, allows him to engage with often hard to reach ethnic groups in a meaningful and collaborative way. He served as a member of RIBA Architects for Change, and is currently a trustee for Carnaval del Pueblo a charity that serves to increase awareness of Latin American culture. He combines practice with teaching, as Associate Professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, focusing on narratives around The Global Majority and Latin American diaspora communities in London.

Ama Ofori-Darko

(she/her)

Architect – BA(Hons), M.Phil, ARB, RIBA

Ama is a Ghanaian-British architect and researcher whose practice was cultivated on the MPhil in Architecture & Urban Design at the University of Cambridge, where she began ongoing research on the urban condition of churches within diasporic African and Caribbean communities. Outside of practice, Ama is a contributor on the Church of England’s Net Zero & Building Services Committee – the national body tasked with ensuring the CofE’s building portfolio meets its environmental commitments by 2045. She also works for Black Females in Architecture (BFA), a grassroots organisation advocating for a more equitable design industry. Within this role, she was an invited participant at the 2023 Venice Biennale and is currently project managing delivery of BFA’s second exhibition located in Accra, Ghana.

Nathan Verrier

(he/him)

Architectural Assistant – B.Sc (Hons)

Nathan is a British-born architectural designer of Nigerian and Irish heritage, raised in East London. He is currently undertaking his Part II at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where his research is driven by a commitment to socially engaged design and spatial justice. He is passionate about using architecture as a tool for supporting marginalised groups, particularly through civic and cultural infrastructure that enables collective expression, intergenerational creativity and community autonomy. Alongside his academic work, he has gained practice experience across multiple stages and scales of work, from community buildings and cultural projects to residential schemes and commercial developments, working from concept and community-led research through to detailed design and delivery.

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