Session 3: Wednesday 29th September, 1.30pm - 2.00pm

Kiln Place and the future of high density, high quality, affordable housing

ABOUT

Alice Brownfield, Associate Director at Peter Barber Architects and recipient of the MJ Long Award for Excellence in Practice 2021 will share some of the practice’s award winning, high quality, high density street-based public housing.  The short talk will focus on the design and delivery of new council homes within the Kiln Place Estate in London and discuss the opportunities for estate infill as well as the need for wider collaboration and action to address both the housing and climate crisis.

SPEAKER: ALICE BROWNFIELD, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PETER BARBER ARCHITECTS

Alice Brownfield is an architect, a chair of Part W (an action group campaigning for gender equity across the built environment) and a trustee for Action on Empty Homes.  Alice is an Associate Director at Peter Barber Architects - a London based practice renowned for a number of ground-breaking urban social housing and homelessness projects. Alice is an advocate for high density, low to medium rise housing and equitable cities, underpinned by a belief that architecture can create the potential for social action.  She is the recipient of the 2021 MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice in recognition of her housing work and advocacy for equity in the built environment.  She has been a design tutor, visiting critic and lecturer at a number of UK schools of architecture, is a member of the London Borough of Havering Design Review Panel and has given talks on the design of high quality, high density housing and homelessness accommodation at various events across the UK and in Norway.