Norwich Lecture 2024

The Norwich Lecture 2024 will be delivered by Tom Jarman, a Director at Mae Architects, a London-based architecture and urban design studio, and winners of the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2023 for the John Morden Centre in Blackheath, London.

Mæ Architects say their purpose is to design buildings and places that uplift the human spirit. Mæ is a Stirling Prize winning practice at the forefront of sustainable, resilient and socially conscious architecture and urbanism; creating work that exists in harmony with the planet and enriches culture and society. They work on regeneration projects for public and private sector clients, focus on brown-field sites, and promote green policies and they have designed the UK’s largest new-build Passivhaus scheme - Agar Grove Estate.

The studio has established an international reputation for sustainable architecture and urbanism and specifically for the design of innovative housing and social infrastructure.

Tom works alongside founder Alex Ely developing Mæ’s design direction; the quality of which has been recognised in numerous awards including the RIBA Stirling Prize 2023 and Stirling Prize shortlisting in 2022.

Tom's talk, 'Resilient Architecture' will set out the polemical of the practice’s recent publication ‘Towards a Resilient Architecture’, which considers how we can create sustainable designs which promote social equity, whilst working within our planet’s limits. Using key examples of built and unbuilt projects by the practice, the discussion will explore the interconnected social, sustainable, and spatial principles that underpin the design of more inclusive and environmentally conscientious buildings and places.

Host or Publisher Norfolk Association of Architects