Stephen Witherford | RIBA

Stephen Witherford was born in 1967 and studied architecture at Plymouth and the University of Cambridge, completing his diploma in 1991. Stephen worked at Eric Parry Architects for 10 years, where he was job, project and/or senior architect on a range of award winning projects including; the new student accommodation building and master's lodge at Pembroke College, Cambridge, the public space and information centre at Southwark Gateway, Bedford School Library, and a series of public space designs, private houses and offices.

Since establishing Witherford Watson Mann Architects in 2001, Stephen has worked as project director on Amnesty International UK's headquarters, the Bankside Urban Forest, Woolwich Town Centre and currently the new Arts Council England's North West offices in Manchester. Stephen is a member of the CABE/DfL Olympics Design Review Panel, a Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design in New York, a London Development Agency Design Advisor and RIBA Competitions Architectural Advisor. Stephen is currently a Visiting Fellow in Urban Design on the London School of Economics Cities Programme and an External Examiner at the University of East London.