Lynch Architects is a London-based RIBA Chartered practice that prides itself on providing imaginative and empathetic solutions to complex technical and cultural challenges. For the past 27 years we have worked at almost every scale on many types of building in every sector - from individual houses to social and private housing schemes, cultural and commercial projects, new-buildings and renovations. We have expertise and deep interest in heritage and conservation design, and extensive academic and professional experience of working with listed buildings and in conservation areas.

 

We have won a number of awards including The Royal Fine Art Commission's Building Beauty Little Gem award for Westminster Coroner's Court in 2024, and best office building at The World Architecture Festival in 2016. Publishers regularly feature our work in architectural journals across the world. Marsh View, a house that we crafted out of parts of a 1950s Norfolk bungalow between 2003-8, was described in The Observer by Stephen Bailey, as "masterpiece", and Ellis Woodman, the director of the Architecture Foundation, observed in the Architects Journal in 2016 that "Lynch Architects' buildings at Victoria should see us all out." We were privileged to exhibit our work at the Venice Biennale in 2008 and in 2012, and at the Milan Triennial in 2018.

 

Our finished buildings looks remarkably similar to the CGIs made of them early in the design process, because we believe in the craft of architecture, and that good design entails editing and refinement, what might be called the search for a poetic economy of means.

 

As well as teaching and a commitment to working with teenagers within our community, we run a small publishing house from within the practice, Canalside Press, which publishes the Journal of Civic Architecture (JoCA) as well as books on the history of modern architecture, photography and poetry.