Trustees
Keith Williams FRIBA MRIAI FRSA
Chair of Trustees
Keith Williams is a chartered architect and urban designer and is the founder and director of design at Keith Williams Architects. He works internationally across a broad range of sectors and has received over 40 major design awards for his projects.
Noted for his work on cultural and civic buildings, his many projects include inter alia the Unicorn Theatre, London, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, the National Opera House, Wexford, Ireland, Athlone Civic Centre, Ireland, the Novium Museum, Chichester, UK, and Clare County Library, Ennis, Ireland (currently under construction).
He is currently working on upgrading the Main Library at the University of Sussex, originally designed by Sir Basil Spence and constructed between 1962-1971.
His work has been published worldwide, he has lectured widely, is external examiner to several schools of architecture and in 2009 was made Honorary Visiting Professor of Architecture at Zhengzhou University, China.
He joined the Board of Trustees of Docomomo UK in March 2024, becoming its Chair in July the same year.
Kate Macintosh OBE
Trustee
Kate Macintosh is an architect who worked for most of her career in public sector offices. Her early works were in housing for the London Boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth. For Southwark she designed the landmark housing scheme, Dawsons Heights, which comprises 296 maisonettes on a hill near Dulwich.
Kate moved to work for Lambeth borough architects where she designed what was then a new model of accommodation for the elderly, in the form of 45 sheltered flats in 2 storey pavilions set in a garden in Streatham. This housing group, which was renamed Macintosh Court following requests from the tenants, was listed grade ll in 2015 based on an application by Docomomo UK, strongly supported by the residents in a move to thwart Lambeth’s announced intent to demolish. Lambeth have since carried out illegal works, in contravention of the listing, radically compromising the qualities of the architecture and with a cavalier disregard for the safety of residents. Kate campaigned with residents in the technical and local press and 4 residents received some financial compensation as after legal action against the borough.
As funding for public housing became unavaiiable, she moved to the County Council architects department of East Sussex, where she designed buildings for the fire service, social services and schools. Moving to the county of Hampshire she continued to work for the same range of client departments.
She concluded her architectural career in private practice in partnership with George Finch, together they designed Weston Adventure Playground for a charity This won an RIBA award in 2005.
Kate served several terms as an RIBA councillor and was twice elected as a vice-president.
In 2021 she was awarded the Jane Drew Prize in recognition of her contribution to elevating the profile of women in architecture. In 2024 she was chosen for the Architects Journal 100 award for her contribution to the profession.
Matthew Blunderfield
Trustee
Matthew Blunderfield is a producer at the Architecture Foundation, with a background in architectural practice. His work focuses on how architecture is discussed, documented, and understood in public, through conversation, research, and public programmes.
He is the creator and host of Scaffold, the AF’s flagship podcast, and leads a postgraduate architecture studio at the Royal College of Art, having taught previously at the Kingston School of Art and Cambridge University.
Emma Dent Coad
Trustee
Emma Dent Coad has been a Docomomo UK member and Working Party member since the 1990s. Emma was born in Chelsea, the youngest of six children in an Anglo-Spanish family. She studied design and architectural history at the Royal College of Art. Spending most of her working life writing for design and architectural magazines, Emma specialised in 20th century social housing, planning and architecture. She has written three books and contributed to countless others. When elected to parliament in 2017 she was half way through (now suspended) PhD research at Liverpool University School of Architecture, on architecture and political ideology under the Spanish dictator Franco; she continues to contribute on specialist subjects when time permits, with articles, lectures and academic seminars.
Emma’s interest in well-planned social housing extends across all housing tenures, where neighbourhoods can be improved by having all the everyday essentials within reasonable walking distance, along with decent transport links. All these amenities are suffering existential threat by the rising cost of rent and business rates, with high streets especially under pressure after the worst of the pandemic; our high streets need rethinking.
Laura Evans
Trustee
Laura Evans is founder of Howland Evans Architects. She studied History of Art and Ancient History at Trinity College Dublin, before studying Architecture at the University of Limerick and London Metropolitan University. She has worked in architectural practice in both Ireland and the UK, founding Howland Evans Architects in 2017. Laura is also a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of the undergraduate architecture course at Kingston School of Art, and has been a visiting critic at the University of Cambridge, TU Dublin, the University of Liverpool, the University of Nottingham and elsewhere.
In 2016 Laura was awarded the RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship for an ongoing research project entitled 'Portico and Patio: Response to Climate and Tradition in Cuban Modernist Architecture', which resulted in a small publication and an exhibition of drawings and models.
Peter Inskip MBE FSA
Trustee
Peter Inskip is based in the practice of Inskip Gee Architects whose projects have included the restoration of Chatsworth, Strawberry Hill, Moggerhanger, Waddesdon and several houses by Lutyens.
A particular interest lies in the relationship of buildings to their setting, resulted in their restoration of the landscape monuments at Stowe.
The use of conservation plans to guide the restoration of historic buildings of the recent past first developed with studies of the great commercial buildings of the 1920s by Edwin Lutyens, and was followed by work on Louis Kahn’s iconic buildings at Yale and the Salk Institute at San Diego.
Peter has served on the architectural advisory committees of the National Trust, the Heritage Lottery Fund, English Heritage and the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles. He is Honorary Artistic Advisor to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.