Martha Read Architects

Martha Read Architects Ltd. is an architectural practice based in east London, established in October 2012, and specialising in residential projects. Martha Read (RIBA, ARB), Director. I have a wide experience of cultural, residential and commercial buildings and interiors of various scales and in various countries. Along with independent projects in London and southern California, I have worked at firms including Gehry Partners, Eric Owen Moss Architects and Zaha Hadid Architects. While fortunate to have worked on exciting and complex ‘signature’ buildings, I feel that it is often simple forms and natural materials, along with sensitive treatment of daylight, which achieve the best results. Above all I am interested in ways in which architecture can be inspired by and enhance – rather than compete with – its surroundings and the lives of its users. I occasionally write about architecture and design (click here to see a list of published articles) and was for four years on the faculty of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles. Before training in Architecture at Kingston School of Art and the University of Westminster, I read Modern Languages (French and German) at New College, Oxford University.