Philip is a postdoctoral ‘UKRI Design Innovation Scholar’ at the University of Cambridge and an architect at Cullinan Studio, London. He is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to write a book on Adjustable Housing. This transdisciplinary concept - as framed in his PhD (University of Reading, 2022) - describes ways of accommodating changing housing needs in higher density areas, where a combination of affordability, typology, taxes, tenure, construction and an illiquid housing market make it harder to move house or make building alterations. Other outputs will include a handbook for implementing Adjustable Housing and a programme of knowledge exchange across industry, practice and academia.
In Philip’s 20 years in practice he has worked on housing for UK urban regeneration projects, and was in-country lead, for a new city and world heritage sites in eastern Libya. He studied in Sheffield, Bucharest (Ion Mincu), Cambridge and Reading, worked in London and Seattle (Olson Kundig), and has leadership experience in early years education, employee-owned business and the British Army. He teaches and lectures regularly, both in the UK and overseas, and has received awards from both the RIBA (Research Trust Award, 2016) and the RIBA Journal (Rising Star, 2016).
