Craig Mitchell Architects is a design studio working in London and the North West. We focus on articulating comfortable spaces and forming well-crafted architecture to improve the lives and experience of individuals and their communities.
Our buildings are formed by language and aim to create a timeless architecture with durability and permanence. We are interested in making strong connections to place with projects holding a level of continuity from the past to the future.
Our contemporary projects are tailored responses to specific client needs and the reading of local conditions.
We are interested in the as found and the palimpsest, understanding the importance of heritage, resilience and reuse of existing fabric.
Alongside practice we are passionate and committed to teaching in the UK and Europe and acknowledge the responsibility to develop the next generation of architects.
Craig Geoffrey Mitchell
Founder
BArch (Hons) Dip Arch ARB RIBA
The studio was founded by Craig Mitchell in 2020. Prior to establishing the practice Craig studied at Kingston University and practiced as an architect in London for over a decade.
Craig joined award winning practice Dow Jones Architects in 2014 where he worked on Spitalfields Christ Church Crypt refurbishment and the Garden History Museum extension in central London. He later went on to work for awarding winning practice Hugh Strange Architects, working on the well publicised ‘Photographers House’ in Peckham. His last post in London was as project architect at Takero Shimazaki Architects were he continued his residential reuse work at Prewetts Mill Horsham, as well as helping masterplan South Ormsby Estate in Lincolnshire and the early refurbishment of South Ormsby Hall.
He also had a brief spell at Allies and Morrison predominantly working on urban masterplanning schemes in London, in particular Camden Goods Yard.
Alongside Practice, Craig is dedicated to teaching. He is lecturer and design tutor at Manchester School of Architecture and teaches in Atelier Continuity for MArch and BA level. He is also guest critic at Nottingham University and visiting professor at Poznan University of Technology, Poland.
Since 2016, he has previously been employed at Kingston University, the AA School of Architecture, Liverpool John Moores University and the Catholic University of America, Washington DC.
He has also written in publications on architecture including the t-sa forum Renewal book series.
