PETER BEARD MA Dip Arch (cantab) RIBA Peter Beard studied architecture at the University of Cambridge and Harvard Graduate School of Design receiving a first class degree and a distinction at diploma level. He is a full member of the RIBA, and has been working independently in practice since 1988 on a range of research, teaching and collaborative built projects. Initial practice experience was with community based housing projects and dockland’s developments in London (Pollard, Thomas, Edwards and Associates 1982-88). Subsequent collaborations include work for London Underground (with Troughton McAslan Architects), with Peter Salter in Japan (public building for Toyama prefecture, responsible for detailed design development), and with Florian Beigel Architects and the Architecture Research Unit (two international competition wins, one for a site in the post-industrial mining landscapes south of Leipzig and one for a major housing development on an ex-military site at Lichterfelde-Süd Berlin).

He has taught design studios at post graduate level at Cambridge University Department of Architecture and the Architectural Association, London. Other teaching has included work in the Landscape department of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, at the Rhode Island School of Design, and as a British Council visitor to Asuncion Paraguay. He has lectured in Tokyo, Philadelphia, Paris, Stockholm, and at a number of British Universities.

Since the Summer of 2002 he has acted as a consultant to both the Greater London Authority Architecture and Urbanism Unit, and to the London Development Agency. He was responsible for convening and co-ordinating the study team for the London Riverside Conservation Park, led by AEA Consulting, the results of which were launched as “Wildspace for a World City” in Autumn 2006. Since 2003 he has also worked closely with the RSPB on their reserves at Aveley Marshes and at Cliffe. This work is focussed on public access infrastructure and inventive responses to existing site heritage. In 2003 he was awarded a fellowship by NESTA (the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts) to develop his work in the field of post-industrial and post-military landscape spaces.

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