Who We Are

Founded in 1991, we are an award-winning architecture practice working across a broad range of building types. Within our varied portfolio we have earned a strong reputation for our work on education buildings, ranging from bespoke studio spaces to campus masterplans. Over the course of thirty years, we have been fortunate to collaborate with many of the UK’s leading academic institutions who, along with major cultural clients, urban developers and leading housing providers, have informed and enriched our design process, giving us invaluable insight into the creation of inspiring, tactile and humane spaces for learning, teaching, making and performance. Above all else we are committed to quality and have won over 180 major design awards for our work across a range of sectors, including the 2014 RIBA Stirling Prize for the Liverpool Everyman Theatre, RIBA London Architect of the Year, BD Architect of the Year and AJ100 Practice of the Year in 2020 and 2022. More importantly, our completed buildings continue to be much loved by students, staff and visitors alike - the essential measure, we think, of our buildings’ success.

In 2019 Haworth Tompkins co-founded the Architects Declare movement in response to the environmental emergency, now over 7000 organisations strong in 29 countries around the world. In the same year the studio became an Employee Ownership Trust and in 2022 a certified B Corporation to make a publicly accountable and auditable commitment to regenerative practice and social purpose.