Studio Gil is an architecture and design practice established in 2009. We blend design sensibility and craft with social agency, working closely with global majority groups and organisations. We listen to the often unheard voices of marginalised communities; translating their stories into architectural propositions. We are passionate about design from the scale of neighbourhood to a child’s toy, approaching all our projects with sensitivity, care and playfulness. We are an energetic team, based at our studio in Ilford, Redbridge, with buildings in the UK and Latin America. Studio Gil was selected by the Architects Journal AJ100 (2020) as one of 25 ‘Disruptor’ practices, demonstrating an alternative approach to British practice through our socially engaged work.


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), MArch
Nathan is a British-born architectural designer of Nigerian and Irish heritage, raised in East London. He recently completed his MArch at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where his research explored the relationship between architecture, cultural identity and community heritage through socially engaged design. 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 research, he has gained professional experience across community, cultural, residential and commercial projects, contributing from concept design through to detailed delivery.
Clients
Lendlease
Peabody
London Borough of Southwark
London Borough of Enfield
London Borough of Redbridge
Freud
Carnaval Del Pueblo Association
Latin Elephant
University College London ( UCL)
University of Brighton
Roy Kinnear Foundation
New Testament Church of God
Distriandina Ltd
Yoo Group
Woodcote High School
Greater London Authority (GLA)
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
Atelier RED Ltd
Ubele Initiative
OrganicLea
British Council

