Rick Mather leads a busy architectural, masterplanning and urban design practice. Founded in 1973, completed work spans both new build and renovation with a special interest in the cultural and education sectors. This is combined with a recognised and innovative expertise in the intelligent re-interpretation of existing, often listed structures and in sustainable low energy building.

Current projects include the £50 million expansion and renovation of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and $110 million extension of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, the relocation of the Galleria Sabauda, Turin and masterplans for the Natural History Museum, London and a £420 million Central Milton Keynes Sustainable Residential Quarter.

Major projects include the renovation and extension of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Wallace Collection and the National Maritime Museum in London and masterplans for the South Bank Centre, London, the new University of Lincoln and the Greenwich World Heritage Site, London.

Recently completed projects include the new School of Architecture at the University of Lincoln, the Jubilee Sports Centre for University of Southampton and a new entrance tower for the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith.

Other Award winning projects include the ARCO and Sloane Robinson Buildings at Keble College, Oxford, Constable Terrace at the University of East Anglia, The Times Newspaper headquarters in London's Docklands, private residences in Hampstead and the Zen restaurants in London, Montreal and Hong Kong.

Rick Mather is a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Theatre Museum and the British Architectural Library. He has previously served on the Councils of the Architectural Association and the Royal Institute of British Architects. Other professional activities have included service as an RIBA external examiner to several schools of architecture, and teaching assignments at the Architectural Association, the Bartlett University College London, the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Thomas Jefferson Professorship at the University of Virginia.

CLIENTS INCLUDE

Architectural Association                                         Natural History Museum  London      

Ashmolean Museum  Oxford                                                Queens College Oxford

Corpus Christi College Oxford                                  Royal Horticultural Society, London  

Dulwich Picture Gallery  London                               South Bank Centre  London             

Eastbourne Borough Council                                                Stowe School  Buckingham             

English Partnerships                                              The King's School  Canterbury        

East Midlands Development Agency                           University of East Anglia  Norwich   

Galleria Sabauda  Torino                                         University of Lincoln                     

Keble College  Oxford                                            University of North London             

London Business School                                         University of Reading                   

Lyric Theatre Hammersmith  London                          University of Southampton

Mansfield College Oxford                                        Virginia Museum of Fine Arts  Richmond USA

National Maritime Museum  London                            The Wallace Collection  London