Jack Richards
BA (Hons) Architecture, DipArch, ARB
Director
Jack is motivated by the role design can play in creating a sustainable and equitable society. Trained as an architect, he is also an accredited Retrofit Coordinator and Urban Designer.
In 2022, he was selected to take part in Public Practice’s first cohort of public sector placements in the North of England. Working as a Design Officer, he led on design policy & coding, producing a Supplementary Planning Document to raise design standards.
Jack’s background is in public housing including the multi-award winning Colville Estate Regeneration, which he worked on for four years whilst at Karakusevic Carson Architects and the Great Jackson Street Regeneration Project whilst at Hodder + Partners in Manchester.
His self build project for a Market Hall in Slovenia earned a nomination for the Architects Journal Small Projects Award. He represented the UK at the International Architecture Showcase; a residency, symposium and publication organised by the British Council.
BA (Hons) Architecture, DipArch, ARB
Director
Jack is motivated by the role design can play in creating a sustainable and equitable society. Trained as an architect, he is also an accredited Retrofit Coordinator and Urban Designer.
In 2022, he was selected to take part in Public Practice’s first cohort of public sector placements in the North of England. Working as a Design Officer, he led on design policy & coding, producing a Supplementary Planning Document to raise design standards.
Jack’s background is in public housing including the multi-award winning Colville Estate Regeneration, which he worked on for four years whilst at Karakusevic Carson Architects and the Great Jackson Street Regeneration Project whilst at Hodder + Partners in Manchester.
His self build project for a Market Hall in Slovenia earned a nomination for the Architects Journal Small Projects Award. He represented the UK at the International Architecture Showcase; a residency, symposium and publication organised by the British Council.
Jo Sharples
BA (Hons) Architecture, DipArch, ARB
Director
Jo is an architect driven by a desire to make buildings of character with as little cost to the planet as possible. She is an accredited Passive House Designer and uses these principles to guide retrofit projects within the studio; taking a ‘less is more’ approach and creatively working with what is already there.
Jo leads a Masters design studio at the University of Sheffield focusing on retrofit and low-impact materials. In 2022 two of her students won the Architect’s Journal’s ‘Student Sustainability Award’.
Prior to founding the studio, Jo worked at the Stirling Prize-winning practice, Caruso St John Architects converting a former steel works into a cookery school in Lille, France. The project was nominated for The Mies van der Rohe Award, the highest architectural accolade in Europe.
Jo is a member of the RIBA’s North West Design Review Panel and the Architects’ Journal Awards Judging Panel. She has given talks with MatriArch and UrbanistasNW and continues to push for a more representative industry.
BA (Hons) Architecture, DipArch, ARB
Director
Jo is an architect driven by a desire to make buildings of character with as little cost to the planet as possible. She is an accredited Passive House Designer and uses these principles to guide retrofit projects within the studio; taking a ‘less is more’ approach and creatively working with what is already there.
Jo leads a Masters design studio at the University of Sheffield focusing on retrofit and low-impact materials. In 2022 two of her students won the Architect’s Journal’s ‘Student Sustainability Award’.
Prior to founding the studio, Jo worked at the Stirling Prize-winning practice, Caruso St John Architects converting a former steel works into a cookery school in Lille, France. The project was nominated for The Mies van der Rohe Award, the highest architectural accolade in Europe.
Jo is a member of the RIBA’s North West Design Review Panel and the Architects’ Journal Awards Judging Panel. She has given talks with MatriArch and UrbanistasNW and continues to push for a more representative industry.