ROB PEARCE ARCHITECTS

ROB PEARCE - RIBA CA

As an architect qualifying with distinction, Rob Pearce has extensive knowledge and experience of period properties and has worked with esteemed organisations such as the National Trust and English Heritage.

Starting his career as a Vernacular Buildings Surveyor with the National Trust he was then appointed by them as Clerk of Works on a project working in conjunction with the South Wales Housing Association converting a derelict bees wax factory, in the centre of Llandeilo, into a home for the elderly - a scheme recognised with a Prince of Wales Conservation Award.

Through his work at Cliveden Conservation - sculpture conservators by appointment to the National Trust - he managed internal and external repair and conservation projects including those to Ightham Mote and the Temple of Concord and Victory at Stowe Landscape Gardens, which won the Europa Nostra Diploma for Conservation an RIBA conservation award and was shortlisted for the Stirling prize.

Working for John Simpson and Partners in London, Rob then went on to be part of the team re-developing the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace, work which included designing a new private chapel for the Queen.

After a move to Suffolk, Rob continued his work with the National Trust at Ickworth, on the enabling works to the West Wing and currently at Dairy Range Cottages. His work at the Framlingham Dental Practice, for Dr Paul Brown, led to alterations and a listed building application for two new stairs to Wortwell Mill. Whilst Rob works on period properties such as the green oak framed extension to Bell Farm, he also undertakes barn conversions and new-builds. Two new houses are currently being constructed in the centre of Snape by Graham Bowles of the Woodbridge Building Co., and designs have been prepared for a new Community Hall for Framlingham.

Rob likes to share his passion for Architecture and recently ran a childrens’ workshop at the ‘Developing a City in the City’ exhibition for the Junior Open House Festival in London#

MATT WITTS - BSc(Hons)MArch

Whilst working at Foster & Partners, Matt graduated with a first class honours from The University of Bath and moved to London to work for the Building Design Partnership. Before commencing his Masters in 2011 at The University of Westminster, Matt worked with BDP designing schools around the UK, spending much of his time researching and implementing prefabrication technology.

On graduating from Westminster, he went on to work for Studio Mcleod, Kilburn, where he worked on small scale high-end residential projects across London. The opportunity later arose to spend a year working in the Netherlands with Tim Vermeend, the director of Urban Climate Architects, whom Matt had met whist studying at Bath. Based in the south of Holland and living by the North Sea in Scheveningen, Matt went on to work on various design stages of residential projects across the country. Here he gained a passion for Dutch design which he hoped to bring back to the UK in some form, particularly their philosophy that everyone deserves a place to live of quality, light and air.

Matt cycled to Suffolk from Holland in the summer of 2016 having been in contact with Rob, whom he had worked for when Rob Pearce Architects was formed. With a passion for the East Anglian landscape and its draw for visual artists, Matt is excited to have the chance to bring relevant and contemporary design to a rural condition, with a particular fascination for vernacular agricultural buildings including modern agricultural field architecture.