Richard studied at the London Metropolitan School of Art, Architecture and Design and has worked at a number of practices in the UK and Australia on civic, community and play projects. He has taught at London Met at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and in conjunction with the RIBA runs their ‘Part 3 equivalent’ course for architects who have qualified outside of the UK.

Richard makes furniture and sculpture, for the practice, for friends and for our clients, and he has a particular interest in exploring the aesthetic potential of a combined handmade and precision-machined approach. In his free time, he supports organisations working with prisoners and refugees, and is on the board of two small housing charities. Richard is a member of SPAB, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. He is also a certified Passive House designer and pushes the practice to be more environmentally and ecologically aware.

Tom studied at the London Metropolitan School of Art, Architecture and Design and has 15 years experience in practice working on a diverse range of cultural and commercial projects. These include a new research facility for Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Stonehenge Visitor Centre. Prior to training as an architect, Tom received a degree in Art History from the University of East Anglia, and the confluence between visual culture and architecture are central to his approach to practice.

Tom has been a studio tutor at the London Met and co-ran the Practice in the UK course with Richard. Tom is a member of CADAP, a review panel providing independent and professional design and conservation advice to the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on development proposals.

Stefanie studied architecture at Sheffield University and the London Metropolitan School of Art, Architecture and Design. She has worked in architectural practices in South Korea, Paris, and London on a number of large-scale housing and local authority projects, including the regeneration of the Colville Estate in Hackney.

She has a passion for architectural education, having taught postgraduate design at the Korea National University and a tutor at London Met. Currently, Stefanie is a member of the RIBA Schools of Architecture Validation Panel, an External Advisor to the ARB and leads on the practice’s work experience placements. Stefanie is the vice chair of RDAG, Hackney council’s housing focused, design review panel, and additionally on the Brent Quality Review Panel. In 2020, Stefanie was shortlisted for the Moira Gemill Prize, a global award for emerging women in architecture.

Elisa joined Gatti Routh Rhodes in 2018 as an ARB registered architect, bringing extensive experience across all design and construction phases, having worked in multi-disciplinary practices delivering architectural, structural and landscape schemes across Europe. Elisa studied holds an architecture and a structural engineering degree, and she also holds a Masters degree in Urban Planning.

Elisa has significant hands-on construction experience, starting from when she joined a European Volunteer Service with the Solidarités Jeunesses in France preserving the ruins of Lesdigueres Castle, France. Elisa built many of the new elements, and restored the existing ones by hand, including rebuilding the decaying stone castle walls.

Calven joined Gatti Routh Rhodes in 2020 and qualified as an architect from the University of Cambridge. He obtained an MEng from the University of Nottingham and completed his architectural diploma at the London School of Architecture (LSA). He brings experience of mixed-use and retrofitted projects, particularly within listed buildings, having worked on a number of central London schemes.

Calven is the chair for the London School of Architecture’s Access and Participation Plan Steering Group; an initiative to provide outreach and equality of opportunity for groups under-represented in architecture - to access, succeed and progress from higher education providers. Calven has tutored and mentored students at each of his previous universities, Nottingham and LSA.