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 2020, 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 second 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 is a member of RIBA Architects for Change, as well as 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 South and Latin American diaspora communities in London.

Jess Tang

(she/her)

Associate – BA(Hons), PG Dip Arch, Dip.PP, ARB

Jess is a British-born Chinese architect and designer, with years of experience at award winning practices such as Hawkins\Brown and Amanda Levete Architects. Jess has a passion for designing through community-led participatory processes, and embedding social and environmental sustainability into all aspects of design. She has worked in both the UK and Hong Kong, and is a master of working to tight programmes with a great level of resolution. She takes an active interest in mentoring in schools, and acts as a positive role model for underrepresented young women, highlighting pathways into the construction industry. At Studio Gil, Jess is currently overseeing the detailed design for a new community hub at Wolves Lane Horticultural Centre in Haringey, as well as developing nineteen residential units for the Joyce & Snell’s Estate Regeneration in Enfield.

Reni Animashaun

(she/her)

Architectural Assistant – B.Arch, M.Arch

Reni is a British-born Nigerian architectural designer, who grew up in South London. She is interested in how sociocultural identities influence placemaking and design development. Her dissertation expanded on this through investigating the nuances of modern built forms within a post-colonial Nigerian context, and the decolonisation of architecture. Her thesis project, which investigated creative techniques of upcycling construction materials, was nominated for the AJ 2021 Sustainability Awards by University of Kent. She is part of the Black Females in Architecture network which strives to make more room for women of black and black mixed heritage within the architectural industry. She is also an Outreach Ambassador involved in creating a bridge to architectural education for secondary school children from ethnic minorities and disadvantaged backgrounds. 

Jemima Harold-Sodipo

(she/her)

Architectural Assistant – BArch(Hons), M.Arch

Jemima is a Nigerian-British architectural designer with a keen interest in social impact work and inclusivity through design. She has recently completed her Masters research at the Mackintosh School of Architecture on how public libraries support communities in building social resilience. Having previously achieved her Part II at the same institution, her final thesis project investigated the role places of social infrastructure play in urban environments, alongside her research project on the longevity of humanitarian architecture. Previously, she has worked on a diverse portfolio of residential projects, as well as on humanitarian architecture projects located in Haiti and Tanzania with the architecture charity, Article 25.

Dominik Do

(he/him)

Architectural Assistant – BSc (Hons)

Dominik is Slovak-born Vietnamese architectural designer with an enthusiastic approach to designing for community groups and development of the actions towards improving their social wellbeing. He has recently finished his Part I at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL where he explored social concepts such as Character education through literature as a community tool for tackling social injustice and misunderstanding of ethnic groups. Across all his previous projects, he investigated programmes that stem from community needs and has remained consistent with the themes of sustainability, inclusivity and equality in these projects.

Nathan Verrier

(he/him)

Architectural Assistant – BSc (Hons)

Nathan is a British-born and raised mixed Nigerian and Irish architectural designer. He is passionate about designing for communities and promoting social equity for the underrepresented. In particular he has a keen interested in supporting young people, and how spaces can be designed to provide a creative outlet for them. He recently completed his Part 1 at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he explored links between postcolonialism, extractivism and the lasting social/ecological implications of colonial theory within the built environment. This culminated in the proposal of an urban typology that explored recycling building materials, promoting closed-loop biodiversity and using biophilia to enrich local communities.

Marcela Florez

(she/her)

Studio Manager – BA Modern Languages, PG Cert. Education

Marcela is of Colombian heritage, who grew up in Ibague, and now lives in London. She is the team’s administrative lead, in charge of maintaining the smooth running of everyday life in the studio. She has strong organisational skills coupled with keen problem-solving instincts. Marcela has a background in teaching having taught Primary and Secondary schools in both Latin America and the UK and continues to be a mentor and positive role model for younger generations.

Sara Eldeib

(she/her)

Architectural Assistant – BA (Hons), M.Arch

Sara is an Egyptian-British architectural designer with a keen passion for designing for communities and preservation. She has recently completed her Part II at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, exploring the anthropological roots of tribal communities of Egypt. Previously, she worked on adaptive reuse projects at conservation practice Purcell, as well as designing a school project located in the suburbs of Giza, Egypt, which was nominated for the Aga Khan Architecture Award in 2019.

Christo Meyer

(he/him)

Architect – B.Arch, Dip.Arch, PG Cert. Professional Practice, ARB, RIBA

Christo is a South African architect and designer, who has worked on a variety of Studio Gil projects that have been published nationally and internationally in both print and online books and publications. Alongside practice, he has taught architecture at various academic institutions in the UK which include The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL and University of Greenwich School of Architecture. He is Adjunct Professor at the University of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (CUINDA).

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