Practice Profile
  Rick Mather leads a busy architectural, masterplanning and urban design practice. Founded in 1973, completed work spans both new build and renovation with a special interest in the cultural and education sectors. This is combined with a recognised and innovative expertise in the intelligent
re-interpretation of existing, often listed structures and in sustainable low energy building.
  Current projects include the £50 million expansion and renovation of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and $110 million extension of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, the relocation of the Galleria Sabauda, Turin and masterplans for the Natural History Museum, London and a £420 million Central Milton Keynes Residential Quarter. In 2006 the practice won three competitions in Oxford. A new Music Room for Corpus Christi College, a new Library and Archive building for Queens' College and a redevelopment of the Acland site for Keble College.
 

Recently completed projects include the new School of Architecture at the University of Lincoln, the Jubilee Sports Centre for University of Southampton and a new entrance for the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith.

Award winning projects include the renovation and extension of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Wallace Collection, the National Maritime Museum in London and the ARCO and Sloane Robinson Buildings at Keble College, Oxford.
 

Recent major projects include masterplans for the South Bank Centre, London, the University of Lincoln and the Greenwich World Heritage Site, London.

Other Award winning projects include the Constable Terrace at the University of East Anglia, The Times Newspaper headquarters in London's Docklands, private residences in Hampstead and the Zen restaurants in London, Montreal and Hong Kong.
 

Rick Mather is a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Theatre Museum and the British Architectural Library Trust. He has previously served on the Councils of the Architectural Association and the Royal Institute of British Architects. Other professional activities have included service as an RIBA external examiner to several schools of architecture, and teaching assignments at the Architectural Association, the Bartlett University College London, the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Thomas Jefferson Professorship at the University of Virginia.