A start was made working on office buildings for Rosehaugh Stanhope at John Outram Associates at an exciting time in London, followed by Leicester School of Engineering & Manufacture (an early “green” building) with Peake Short & Partners and a year spent working on social housing in Paris (Montreuil). Pre-registration experience included, project architect on published housing in Poole, South East, short periods with Norman Foster’s Japan office (while spending a year near Tokyo) & minimalist John Pawson. Registration in the UK was completed in 1997. In all 15 years approx. UK & international practice experience on various scales with a focus on housing.

Projects carried out as Lisa Harmey Architect from 1997 included after an Islington 40K apartment refurbishment & large Hampstead house extension, a flatpak stair -designed to challenge custom affordability using MMC, published in BD “Cracking it’ 2005. Additionally, other listed (designated) renovation and various small commercial projects followed. L1 was formed in 2005, prior to relocating in Ontario’s rustbelt, a company with interests in compact housing, modern construction methods and, global mobility. Older site snapshot https://sites.google.com/view/l1architecture/home also Blogspot , https://l1abroad.blogspot.com/

Outlook is formed by time spent in Asia & Canada (includes Ontario’s registration exams & code), experiencing first hand radically differing attitudes to nature & the material! Extra-professional activities have included design review (City of Vaughan Ontario 2011-2013 Architecture for Humanity rep.), design tutor roles in Asia (Beijing visiting 2015-18)  & Wales WSA (Cardiff 2019-’22). Our unit was joined ’20-’21 by Gavin Finnan of Macreanor Lavington Architects. The MArch. 2021-22, unit was run based on mobility generally, on the English island of Portsea. 

Based in the UK, adjacent to Regents canal, the office, is working on private residential designs as always and sometimes collaborations https://youtu.be/8QYpKrEXzwc & https://www.l1architecture.uk/boundaries-de-fence/. We do commercial, & community where we can. Generally pursuing the continuing implications of globalisation/modernity with living space, in London, but also South-East & further afield.