Feilden Fowles

Since their emergence in 2009, Feilden Fowles has built a reputation for smart, sustainable and socially conscious architecture in the fields of education, arts and culture, and heritage. Founded by University of Cambridge contemporaries Fergus Feilden and Edmund Fowles, the practice is based in London but works across the UK, designing and developing distinctive, characterful and purpose-driven buildings that bring clear community benefits. In April 2018, the practice was selected as one of a number of high calibre architecture practices to sit on the panel of the Mayor of London’s Architecture and Urbanism framework. Through working  closely with “the people and organisations who are building a better London,” the £35m initiative seeks to encourage fresh thinking for the design and building of projects in the capital. 

Feilden Fowles found us back in 2015 via a short film we made for their friends, the watchmakers Uniform Wares. They were about to embark on their self-directed studio project and wanted to document the process.  We were excited by the prospect of working with such a talented and inspiring architectural practice and curious as to what this unique project would reveal about Feilden Fowles's approach to architecture in general.  Unlike the usual fast turn-around, the film we created with their team has been two years in the making.  As the film was launched in May 2018, the Waterloo Community Farm project had just won the prestigious RIBA London Award.