Profile

Hugh Strange Architects were established in 2011 and are based in London. They have developed a reputation for producing practical and cost effective buildings that marry an attention to material and structure with precise, contextually considerate responses to sensitive urban and rural sites.

The Strange House, constructed on a backland site in South-East London was the practice’s first completed new-build project and won a RIBA Award 2011, AIA UK Award 2011 (Best Small Project) and the Wood Award 2011(Best Small Project).

The practice’s interest in working in rural environments includes a timber cabin for staff and visiting school groups, set within a new nature reserve in the Avon Gorge for the Avon Wildlife Trust, and winner of the 2016 AJ Small Projects Award, as well as a series of commissions in Somerset at the Shatwell farm. These include a collaboration with the renowned Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza, and the completion of the Drawing Matter Archive, which houses a significant collection of architectural drawings and was nominated for the 2015 European Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award, and won an RIBA National Award.