John Puttick


John is an architect and the founder and director of John Puttick Associates. John has a particular enthusiasm for the use of architecture for the benefit of communities and how buildings can relate to and improve specific places.  He has over 20 years of experience as an architect working on buildings of all types and scales.

John studied architecture at The University of Nottingham and The Bartlett, University College London where he subsequently taught a Diploma design unit. His own Diploma project “The Land of Scattered Seeds” has been published and exhibited internationally and a copy is held in the collection of Museum of Modern Art in New York. He qualified as an architect in 2003. 

John established John Puttick Associates in 2014, a London-based architectural studio specialising in civic, public and community buildings and working throughout the UK. He led the practice’s award-winning refurbishment of the iconic Brutalist Preston Bus Station, won through an international competition, and opened to the public in 2018. The project is the recipient of the international World Monument’s Fund Modernism Prize and the Civic Trust’s Special Award for Reuse & Adaptation amongst other awards. Other key projects include Legacy Youth Zone, a £6 million new building which was completed in 2019, and the refurbishment and extension of a museum in Hertfordshire. He is currently working on a major retrofit project to create facilities for young people in Grimsby and the extension of a Grade 2* Listed Charles Barry-designed church in Brighton.


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