People · Podcast guest
Oliver Lowrie
Co-Founder and Director at Ackroyd Lowrie.
Oliver Lowrie is an architect and co-founder of Ackroyd Lowrie, the London practice he leads with Jon Ackroyd. Before founding the practice, he spent ten years at Architype, developing a modular timber construction system for primary schools and nurseries and working as project architect for Highgate School’s new junior school.
- Practice
- Ackroyd Lowrie
- Based in
- Vyner Street, London E2 9DG, UK
- On the podcast
- Episode 0211 · Architecture Social
Selected work
Selected practice work.
Three projects from Ackroyd Lowrie, with details and imagery from the practice.
Bermondsey, London
Bombay Street
A 24-home mixed-use regeneration that also reworks neighbouring railway arches and adds a community garden.
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Chichester, United Kingdom
Boxgrove Lanes
More than 70 homes and 2,000 m² of retail organised around landscaped courtyards and a lake.
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Croydon, United Kingdom
Innova (Impact House) Croydon
A 220-home micro-living proposal with co-working, lounges, reception space and a rooftop cinema.
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Lea Bridge Road ↗
Twenty-six affordable micro-homes for first-time buyers registered as key workers, designed around off-site volumetric construction.
Harold Road ↗
Thirty-one homes and a replacement nursery on a redeveloped education site in Newham.
About
The story so far.
Background and approach.
Oliver Lowrie is an architect and co-founder of Ackroyd Lowrie, the London practice he leads with Jon Ackroyd. Before founding the practice, he spent ten years at Architype, developing a modular timber construction system for primary schools and nurseries and working as project architect for Highgate School’s new junior school.
His practice biography records architecture studies at Sheffield, a Part II distinction at Oxford Brookes, and completion of his training at Westminster in 2012. His work combines sustainable design with collaboration between clients, makers and builders; he has also taught and lectured at Oxford Brookes and Nottingham.
Conversation
The thinking behind the work.
Episode 0211 · Architecture Social
Oliver Lowrie’s Top 10 LESSONS LEARNED made while setting up an Architecture Practice
Today we are going to dive deep with Oliver Lowrie, the straight-shooting co-founder of Ackroyd Lowrie, as he lays bare the top 10 lessons learned while setting up their architecture practice.
Explore episode moments
Use the timestamps below to find each moment in the full episode.
- 05:00 · The first lessons from setting up a studio · Audio only
- 10:00 · Creating a business ecosystem and content · Audio only
- 15:00 · Building momentum before the work arrives · Audio only
- 20:00 · Fees, overtime and protecting the team · Audio only
- 25:00 · Educating clients and professional value · Audio only
- 30:00 · Apprenticeships and long-term talent routes · Audio only
More conversations with Oliver
- Episode 0111 · Architecture SocialCareers at Ackroyd Lowrie Architects, ft. Oliver Lowrie ↗
The practice
Ackroyd Lowrie
Founded in 2014, working across urban regeneration, masterplanning and education.
Architecture practice · East London
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