Jessica Reynolds Director vPPR Architects In conversation with Rosie Webb

JESSICA REYNOLDS

MA(Cantab), MPhil, MArch, ARB/RIBA

Jessica co-founded vPPR in 2009. She is particularly interested in the relationship between art and architecture. She focuses on cultural projects and artist collaborations to rethink the everyday, greatly enjoying working across all scales and project types, from installations to historic refurbishments to mixed-use new developments.

She is unit master at The Architectural Association, studying the role of museums in the environmental emergency. She has organised debates on this topic with the V&A, the Natural History Museum, the Horniman Museum and others. She is co-founder of the Architecture Exchange, a platform to foster debate between architecture and philosophy, investigating the work of Graham Harman and Chantal Mouffe. Jessica studied architecture at Cambridge University and Princeton University, including an M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Architecture at Cambridge.

vPPR Architects, believe access to culture is fundamental for communities to thrive.

We design spaces that inspire creativity by prioritising shared space, flexibility of use and artist collaborations. Our projects are designed to be robust and long lasting, seeking to retrofit wherever possible and embracing circular economy principles in our designs.

From our studios in London, Liverpool and Hamburg, we design for a diverse range of cultural, residential, commercial, education and public realm clients. vPPR is a women-led architecture practice, set up by Tatiana von Preussen, Catherine Pease and Jessica Reynolds in 2009.

Event supported by Pat McCabe Architects.

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