I came to architecture through art. Before architecture school, I studied fine art and sculpture, and the habit has never quite left. Most projects still start at the drawing board, with a model, a material sample, and a question about how the building wants to sit on its site.



The first sixteen years were in London, working at four practices, the last of them Manser, where I left as Associate Director in 2002 to co-found Plastik Architects. Plastik ran for two decades, over three hundred projects across nine countries, a Kent Design Award, a RIBA Regional shortlisting, a Young Architects of the Year nomination.



In 2023, the practice quietly became John Davies Architect, a smaller, more direct version of itself. One architect, drawing every project.