Russ Edwards

Russ Edwards is Project Director at Latimer, the development arm of Clarion Housing Group, where he leads the Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community, a proposed new settlement of more than 7,500 homes in Essex.

He trained as an architect and holds a BA in Architecture from the University of Portsmouth. He spent around a decade in practice, much of it at Stirling Prize-winning practice dRMM, where he led residential projects and contributed to schemes including the London 2012 Athletes' Village, Battersea Power Station and Elephant and Castle.

Russ then moved to the client side, serving as Director of Design at affordable housing developer Pocket Living and in design and technical roles at Lendlease before joining Latimer. His work focuses on large-scale residential placemaking, stakeholder engagement and regenerative design, driven by a personal mission around sustainability and the housing crisis.

In this Architecture Social episode he offers candid advice for architects considering a move into development, including how to compete for projects, what developers value from a design team, and the trade-offs of stepping back from hands-on design.

Watch or listen to the full conversation in the Architecture Social CPD: Architect to Developer: Regenerative Design and Real Impact.