Rupert Walshe
M.A.(Hons)., M.A.(RCA)., M.Sc.(Sust)., RIBA.
Director.

Rupert studied architecture at Edinburgh University where he gained a first class honours degree and then at the Royal College of Art, where he was short-listed for the Helen Hamlyn award. After qualifying as an architect he successfully completed an M.Sc. in Sustainability and the Environmental Design of Buildings at Cardiff University.
Rupert worked with conservation architects in Paris (with Philippe Oudin, Architecte en Chef des Monuments Historiques for Paris and the Dordogne), in Lyon (with Didier Repellan, Architecte en Chef des Monuments Historiques for the Rhone and the French buildings in Rome) and in Edinburgh with Simpson and Brown before joining the London based practices of Ash Sakula Architects, where he was primarily engaged on the design for a National Carnival Arts Centre in Luton, and Metropolitan Workshop, working on various projects including the masterplan and design of two mixed-use residential blocks in Dublin and office developments in Amman and Derry.

Rupert has taken part in various competitions both large, winning the design for a major new museum in Tripoli, and small, winning the design of a commemorative drawing cabinet for the V&A and an animation exhibition in London. He has also been short-listed for a concrete innovation award (published in IdFX magazine), an Aids Orphanage in South Africa (exhibited at architecture week '06), and a bat house at the London Wetland Centre, Barnes, London.