Peter Barber, Founder & Director Peter Barber Architects will deliver a talk setting the social and political context in which the practice are working.

Date Thursday  01st October, 2026

Time 19:15 – 20:30hr

Location The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane

FREE entry - All are welcome, but prebooking is essential as places are limited.

Peter Barber OBE RA

Peter Barber worked with Richard Rogers and Will Alsop prior to establishing Peter Barber Architects in 1989. Over the last 30 years Peter has designed a significant number of award-winning housing projects in numerous London Boroughs. He has twice been UK Housing Architect of the Year and won the NLA Building of the Year for 2016.  Peter was awarded the Royal Academy Grand Prize for Architecture in 2016 and numerous RIBA and Housing Design Awards. He has been invited by the Government to lead a discussion on “Designing for Better Public Spaces” with a team of top built environment professionals. In 2022 he was awarded an OBE for services to architecture. He was also awarded the Soane Medal in 2023. He has been described by the independent as one of the UK’s leading urbanists.

PBA Practice Statement

Peter Barber Architects was established in 1989 in studios built by the practice on a canal side wharf in the East End of London. In 2002 the practice moved to a grade II listed Victorian print works which it has refurbished in King's Cross. We are an award-winning design-orientated practice with numerous ground-breaking mixed-use and residential schemes, award-winning planning studies across the UK and individual buildings such as the Villa Anbar, twice short-listed for the international Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

In October 2001 the Practice’s Donnybrook Urban Quarter won first prize in the Architecture Foundation's prestigious Innovations in Housing Competition. The project won a Housing Design Award, runner-up in Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, AIA Award and RIBA Award. It was also short-listed to the last 10 for the 2006 Stirling Prize and included in the exhibition of 50 of the most significant UK buildings of the last half century. A series of radical urban housing projects have followed which have variously won Housing Design Awards, RIBA Awards and AIA Awards. Peter Barber Architects was UK Housing Architect of the year in 2007 and 2011 and won the Royal Academy Grand Award for Architecture in 2015. In 2016, the practise’s Holmes Road Studios was the New London Architecture’s Overall Building of the Year and in 2016 and 2017 were included in The Guardian’s top 10 buildings (worldwide) for the year. In 2021, the office was awarded the AJ100 Contribution to the Profession Award. PBA’s project McGrath Road was awarded the 2022 Neave Brown Award for the UK’s best affordable housing scheme.

The Practice's varied portfolio of work is underpinned by a consistent commitment to radical solutions and excellence in design, which has put it at the forefront of a new wave of high-profile practices in London. The practice has built unusual and innovative projects with clients such as St Mungo's Community Housing Association, Circle 33 Housing Group, East Thames Housing Group and The London Boroughs of Newham, Enfield, Greenwich, Camden and Barking.

Supported by:  Galway City Council

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