practice profile
Adrian James Architects is an RIBA Chartered Practice. This gives our clients the assurance that:
- All our architectural work is done under the supervision of an RIBA architect.
- All our architects are kept on their professional mettle with an obligatory CPD programme.
- We have an appropriate level of Professional Indemnity Insurance.
- We operate a sensible project-based quality management system.
- We protect the well-being of our staff, our clients and those whom our work affects with Health & Safety and Employment policies.
- And importantly, we have a strong Environmental Policy guiding our every action.
Clients can rest assured that their project is in good hands in design terms. Prior to establishing the practice 10 years ago Adrian James trained at Cambridge University and worked for several years for well-known London practices including John Outram Associates, where he managed inter alia the design and construction of a couple of extraordinary international projects. The two principal architects, Associate Michael Marshall and David Bonta, also have a wealth of experience with c.v.s that include work for ORMS, Richard MacCormac, and Allies & Morrison.
It is inevitable that our studio has certain design predilections: it's fair to say we have a design philosophy, and this can be detected in the range of projects on display on this website. But it should also be clear from the variety of architectural solutions adopted that our creative juices are not contained by any dogma: we tackle all sorts of building types and sizes and we let the client, the brief and the site guide us to very different answers. We do not churn out standard stuff, we do not fall back on clichés, we are very creative, we use the right side of our brains, and we really think.
