Holly Lewis

Co-Founding Partner,

We Made That

Speaker Biography

Holly co-founded We Made That in 2006 and is a trusted voice in shaping healthy, fair and well-designed places. She cares deeply about locally-informed and impact-driven outcomes.

She is a registered architect and affiliate member of the Landscape Institute. She has led a unique range of urban projects for the practice, from pioneering industrial intensification work through to comprehensive high street regeneration projects. Holly advocates for community involvement within the design process, empowering women in the built environment and equitable city-making.

Holly is Mayor’s Design Advocate for the Greater London Authority and is a Design Council Expert. She has also contributed as a national High Streets Task Force Expert. Currently, she is the Town Architect for the London Borough of Hackney, chairs the Croydon Design Review Panel, and is a member of the Thanet Design Review Panel. Additionally, she acts as an external examiner for the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

She was shortlisted for the AJ Emerging Woman Architect of the Year Award 2012, is a former trustee of The Architecture Foundation and lectures internationally.

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