Our people: Alex Scott-Whitby, Osman Marfo-Gyasi, Virginia Newman, Jeff Tidmarsh, Mary Tyulkanova, Nick Franklin
Ed Payne, Mike Partirdge
ScottWhitbyStudio is an architecture and creative consultancy that operates within, on, and outside the boundaries of traditional architectural practice. The Studio works with a diverse array of clients; from home-owners to international property companies and cultural institutions, on commissions that vary in scale and typology.
Our projects range from temporary sculptural installations to projects that will take 30 years to complete. We are interested in working on creatively challenging projects that require our dexterous approach to solving our clients’ briefs in an imaginative and life-enriching way.
We delight in creating robust, durable and engaging spaces for people to conduct their lives in just as much as we enjoy creating one-off experiences that change people's perceptions of the ordinary.
We operate across borders and work internationally with studios in London, Moscow and Dubai. Through collaborating globally with our diverse international team of studio members and project partners, we aim to deliver real creative value for our clients regardless of scale, scope, and location of project.
Our Process:
Often our solutions arrive through a rigorous client-centred process of debate and discussion, where we take the time to listen and learn from our clients’ needs and requirements whilst also researching independently into the area that they have tasked us to investigate.
In the past this has meant that we have volunteered on weekly evening soup runs to better understand the workings of a homeless charity and travelled with our client to New York to look at tall building exemplars. We have also cooked dinners in our clients’ kitchens and asked their children to create video diaries, so that we might experience how they live.
We hope that the process is one of shared exploration and that clients feel they have learned as much working with us as we have working with them, and that our creative energy has offered inspiration in the process of designing something remarkable.
Alex Scott Whitby, Founder Director
Alex is the founder and director of ScottWhitbyStudio, and works personally on all the projects in the studio.
He enjoys working with the clients on projects of all scales and durations, currently leading projects that range from a maypole on the Strand to a large private house in Riyadh, from a public space in Winchester to a new square outside St Paul’s Cathedral.
Passionate about education, Alex combines leading ScottWhitbyStudio with being admissions tutor and senior lecturer at the University of East London. Previously, he was a Unit master at the Architectural Association, visiting lecturer at The Welsh School of Architecture, and a visiting professor at the International University of Architecture,Venice. He frequently gives lectures and talks about architecture and the work of the studio to schools and universities worldwide.
Alex's interest in the future of the profession saw him sit on RIBA Council for 10 years, during which time he sat on the Board of the British Architectural Trust as well as Education, Membership, and International Relations committees, and was a member of the British Architectural Library committee.
He first studied architecture at Newcastle University after which he spent a number of years working in Advertising and Filmmaking, after which he completed his studies in ‘the Free Unit’ at The Cass School of Architecture, London. He has won many awards and honours for his work and the work of the studio has been exhibited and published internationally. In 2016 he was named by the RIBA Journal as one of the Rising Stars of British Architecture.
Osman Marfo-Gyasi, Associate
Osman is part of the original team at ScottWhitbyStudio where he has a central role in the preparation of presentation materials. He is able to bring together all his talents as an architect as well as photographer and digital artist, and manages the graphic output of ScottWhitbyStudio’s London office, ensuring that the team works efficiently and effectively. This eye for detail has also been key in all of Osman’s work from the creation of a luxury private villa in Saudi Arabia to the renovation of a family home in Oxfordshire. He enjoys working closely with the client to ensure that their needs are met practically as well as aesthetically. He has personally guided his Oxford client through the design process and works tirelessly to create a home that will serve the needs of this family both today and tomorrow.
Past Members: Alex McGill, Anna Pizova, Cherng-Min Teong, Elza Liang, Joshua Doyle, Kirk Slankard, Michael Eleftheriou, Michaela Bortolozzi, Nana Ayisi, Nicolas Franklin, Oliver Taylor, Paulina Huukari, Pierre Blanc, Raghav Dixit, Renata Fassio, Roger Whiteman, Rosa Vane, Tamara Curtis