Martyn Evans

Creative Director

Landsec & MediaCity

Speaker Biography

Martyn spent 17 years with Cathedral Group, now U+I, including six years on the board before leaving to become the Development Director at the 1,200-acre Dartington Hall Estate in Devon in 2016. He returned to U+I in 2019 to deliver the creative strategy at the heart of its purpose-driven regeneration development portfolio including major regeneration schemes in Manchester, London and Cambridge and was part of the team that completed the sale of the company to Landsec in December 2021. Now Martyn is Creative Director of one of the largest regeneration development portfolios in the UK including Mayfield in Manchester, St David’s Centre in Cardiff, Buchanan Galleries in Glasow and the 120-acre, 6,000-home new town in north west Cambridge at Hartree. Martyn is a visiting lecturer at a number of architecture schools including The Bartlett and Manchester School of Architecture, is Chair of the London Festival of Architecture and founder of The Young Architects and Developers Alliance (YADA), a networking organisation that fuels partnership and understanding between young architects and developers. He has been a jury member of the AJ’s Small Projects, The Architect of the Year, the NLA and the Estates Gazette Awards, writes a regular column in BDOnline and contributes to the Estates Gazette.

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