Full architectural service — concept through to completion on site — is offered in London, Ibiza and across Spain. For projects further afield, including India and the rest of Europe, John takes on design-stage work and collaborates with local teams for delivery. If you're unsure whether your location fits, ask.

No, and that's deliberate. A house on a Spanish hillside should not look like a flat in central London. The materials, the proportions, the way the building meets the ground — all of that comes from the site and the client. What stays the same is the care and the method, not the look.

With questions, not drawings. The first few conversations are mostly listening — how you live now, what works, what doesn't, what you'd change if the building let you. The brief gets written from the answers. Only then does the drawing start.

Clients who care about the details. People who'd rather get fewer things right than more things done. Projects where there's room to draw slowly, choose materials honestly, and build something that will outlast the trend that made it. Budget matters less than that.

Quiet architecture. Buildings that sit honestly on their site, made from real materials — stone, timber, concrete, brick — and detailed so they'll still look right in thirty years. No house style. Each project starts from the place it's being built in, not from a folder of past work.