Rob Gregory
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Rob Gregory joined Feilden Clegg Architects after graduating from the University of Bath in 1996 with first-class honours. In 1998 he moved to Michael Hopkins and Partners, where he spent three years working on Manchester City Art Gallery.
Toward the end of this period, Gregory’s master’s thesis, Liberation: the Spirit of the Festival of Britain, was published in the Architectural Review, leading him to pursue work as a freelance journalist, writing technical and building-study features for a range of publications. As his writing career became more time-consuming, he took a part-time position at Allies and Morrison, where he spent two years working on the refurbishment strategy for the Royal Festival Hall.
In April 2003 he was offered the position of assistant editor of the Architectural Review – where he is still employed. He is the founder and proprietor of Becket Hall Studios in Bristol, trustee of The Architecture Centre, also in Bristol, and for three years has been a visiting design and dissertation tutor at the University of Bath. He has also been a visiting critic and lecturer at University College London and at Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Denmark.
Becket Hall, Bristol
Rob Gregory acted as client, contractor and architect on the refurbishment of Becket Hall in Bristol. The project is part of an ongoing crusade to revive historic buildings by campaigning and writing, as well as by direct action. The hall is set in a medieval courtyard among a group of old buildings, including a church and 15th-century merchants’ houses. Long-term development plans are still in negotiation with the owners of the medieval houses and the Churches Conservation Trust, but this preliminary project is intended to kick-start development of the site. Becket Hall is now home to a thriving community of designers.
