Profile

Gordon MacLaren
Reg. Archt Dip Arch UCL BSc
Gordon MacLaren has been the architect to a Health and Educational centre at Bromley-by-Bow in the East End of London and has designed or modified all the buildings on their site which includes a 2 ha. Public park.

Gordon is head of Management, Practice and Law and course leader for the final registration course for architects RIBA 3. He combines practice with Alex at WMLLP on social projects in London and Somerset, with an academic interest in the politics of public procurement and control under New Labour, together with a wider interest in the possibilities that remain for architecture to 'make the world a better place'.

Alex Freemantle
RIBA Dip Arch UCL BSc
Alex Freemantle has recently joined Wyatt MacLaren and brings with her a wealth of expertise in Educational Design. Until recently, Principal Architect at Milton Keynes (MK Architecture), Alex designed and saw built several new primary and secondary schools, including a school for Autistic children. Her most recent project, Water Hall Primary School, has been entered for several awards. She has previously worked with the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) as an advisor on the BSF project, and for Tower Hamlets Architecture Department.

Alex looks forward to further educational work with Wyatt MacLaren.

Alex MacLaren
Reg. Architect Dip Arch LMU BA (Hons) Cantab
Alex MacLaren has been practising architecture in London since graduating from Cambridge University in 2003.
She spent two years as co-chair of Archaos, the student body for UK architecture students. In 2004 she designed and saw executed a £ 0.7 M Shop fit-out for a Zimbabwean jeweller in the Fulham Road during a year out between her studies at the AA (Architectural Association) and LMU Diploma. Her most recent private project was a £100k house extension in the New Forest National Park, completed 2008.

Alex is Director of the TeamBuild Association, a charitable trust that organises a highly-regarded Annual competition for construction professionals under the age of 30. The aim of the competition is to foster understanding, communication and collaboration between different professions in the industry.

She has taught English in Vietnam and worked with schoolchildren in Guyana. "I get a buzz from working with people and making buildings for them. I love the battered grittiness of post-industrial landscapes and the power and comfort of simple churches, mosques or community halls. I love community and monumentality, and am baffled by inhumane complexity, illegibility and 'wow'."

Alex Arestis
MA (Cantab) Dip Arch
Alex studied at Cambridge University before moving to London to practise Architecture. He continued his studies first at the RCA and latterly at London Metropolitan University. Alex is a skilled draughtsman and designer. He is interested in the way different cultures inform architecture and draws from his own experiences of childhood in Glasgow and Cyprus.

Matt Lambert
BA (Hons) Architecture
Matt studied Architecture, receiving a BA (Hons) from Brighton University, where his final year projects focused intently on communal and social projects and interventions including a Master Plan for a re-design of sections of the Aylesbury Estate in Elephant and Castle, London. He is currently working for Wyatt Maclaren LLP before returning to study his Diploma in Architecture.

Becky Charles
BA (Hons) Architecture
Becky studied Art and Design and then Architecture, receiving a BA (Hons) from London Metropolitan University. She has worked for Wyatt Maclaren LLP in both full and part time positions since 2005. She has travelled widely and taught English abroad.

Angela (Yi-Yu) Yu
Architectural Assistant
Angela studied Medicine for some years in her native China before relocating to the UK and embarking on a degree in Architecture at London Metropolitan University. She is currently studying three-dimensional design at the Sir John Cass Institute in east London.

Erica Brown
Erica has a research and project management position in Wyatt MacLaren. She is an Elder of a South East London URC, taking responsibility for the maintenance of the building for the last thirteen years. As a member of a church with a clear mission to disabled people, she is interested in how buildings can be made more accessible to everyone.