Optimists working together to make the world better

Jerry founded Tate+Co in 2007 and maintains a central role at the practice. He is driven by his desire to generate creative, pragmatic and unique solutions for each project that have a positive impact on our built and natural environment. Jerry is influential across all projects, ensuring design quality is paramount.

Jerry was educated at Nottingham University and the Bartlett, where he received the Antoine Predock Design Award, subsequently completing a masters degree at Harvard University, where he received the Kevin V. Kieran prize. Prior to establishing Tate+Co, he worked at Grimshaw Architects where he led a number of significant projects including ‘The Core’ education facilities at the Eden Project in Cornwall, UK.

Jerry is an active member of the construction industry community and is a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. He is frequently invited to lecture, notably at Education Estates, the Carpenters Fellowship and Ecobuild, as well as contribute to architecture publications, including the Architects Journal, Building Design, Sustain, and World Architecture News. He has taught at Harvard University, run a timber design and make course for the Dartmoor Arts organisation and was Regnier Visiting Professor for Kansas State University’s Architecture School in 2021/22. Currently Jerry teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. In his spare time Jerry is involved with a number of charities and is a trustee at the Grimshaw Foundation as well as a Governor at Cranleigh School.

Laurence joined Tate+Co in 2011. He is design-led yet blends this with a practical understanding of development to ensure concepts can become a reality. Laurence has been the project architect for many significant projects at the practice including the Eden Canopy Walkway and the Brunel Museum Reinvented project, re-opening Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s first ever structure for use as a performance space.

Laurence graduated from Nottingham University with first class honours and received a distinction for his Part II at Westminster University before completing his Part III certificate at RIBA Northwest. He has previous experience working in a number of other London based practices including Hopkins Architects, where his work included a residential project for Rice University, Texas.

Laurence has a particular interest in regenerative design and has taken part in talks and written articles on the subject. In 2015, Laurence was awarded the AKT II Architecture prize at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition for his Urban Floral Propagation field box.

Andy is a Director at Tate+Co and joined the practice in 2014. Andy has extensive experience at leading multi-disciplinary teams and complex projects to successful outcomes. These projects cover a range of scales, sectors and locations, notable projects include Creative Centre for York St. John University and Townsend Building for Cranleigh Preparatory School which he led from conception to completion. He has also delivered masterplans, community projects as well as housing and regeneration schemes for a multitude of clients.

Whilst working across a broad range of projects, Andy has a particular interest in education and the positive benefit in connecting learning spaces with nature. Andy has shared these learnings at Education Estates as well as the Structural Timber Conference.

Qaisy has worked at Tate+Co since 2018 on a variety of projects at different stages. These include the recently completed York St John Creative Centre, and a large residential retrofit/refurbishment and extension for a private client in Kent, as well as Heathrow Expansion Project at Grimshaw Architects. He often combines his artistic and making abilities with a sound technical knowledge on each project he works in.

Qaisy received his MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2) with a distinction from The Bartlett School of Architecture. He was under supervision of CJ Lim and Simon Dickens, with whom he explored concepts of architecture and urban planning based on narrative and storytelling.

Prior to The Bartlett, Qaisy had several roles which he believes have expanded his creativity and sensitivity in space making. At the age of 18, he was a stage designer at Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPAC) where he designed and built a stage for a play based on Sherman McDonald’s ‘After Juliet’. His creative pursuits then brought him to work under the wing of an award-winning Malaysian film director Yasmin Ahmad as a post-production assistant in a production house based in Malaysia. His architectural training later developed at several practices including Veritas Architects, ZLG Design, and Rekarancang Sdn. Bhd.. During this time he pursued his interests in art particularly in mural painting where he was commissioned to paint murals on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, Shah Alam, and Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia, and in Melbourne, Australia.

Jolene has worked at Tate+Co since 2019 on a variety of projects at different stage, primarily in the education and leisure sector. Her projects include York St John University Creative Centre, and the refurbishment of Birkbeck University Professional Services Workspace where she played a key role in the design and construction process. She has led the planning application process for Watergate Bay Hotel comprising a 6,850sqm masterplan which includes a new hotel and an apart hotel building with new facilities and a pavilion.

Jolene received her B(Sc)Hon Architecture in Malaysia where upon completion she gained professional experience at Veritas Architects and KSKA Arkitek. During her time there, she worked on several large-scale commercial, residential and mixed development projects.

Jolene then pursued her masters in London where she received MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2) from The Bartlett School of Architecture before completing her Part III certificate at Westminster University. Her previous experience working at London-based practice Burrell and Mistry involved work on Paragraph 55 Exceptional Quality (now Paragraph 80) houses and during her time at Grimshaw Architects she worked on the Heathrow Expansion Project.

Jolene’s passion for architecture is fuelled by research and experimentation with various technologies and mediums. During her masters studies she adopted 3D animation and filmmaking as iterative design tools, exploring alternative perceptions of space from the journeys of multiple personas and users — time-based elements were introduced into projects to create an intangible human experience.

Hannah joined Tate+Co in 2021. She is passionate about socially conscious designs which work with and enhance their surrounding landscapes and communities.

Hannah took her RIBA Part 1 Degree at Brighton University, and her RIBA Part 2 Masters at Westminster University where she received a distinction. As a student she enjoyed experimenting with materials and realising their architectural potentials, especially in terms of how reuse and recycling can play an important role in creating sustainable designs. The work Hannah developed during her Masters degree was featured in MIT’s publication, Measuring the City: The Power of Urban Metrics, Visualising Cities, 2021.

In her year out Hannah worked for Orme Architects, on individual residential projects, ranging from the very small to the very large, in the South West of England. These projects integrated traditional and contemporary styles into the sensitive rural landscape of the West Country, with a design ambition to benefit the environment from both a low-carbon and an aesthetic aspect.

Outside of work Hannah loves to explore new areas of London as well as further afield and keep active.

Evelyna joined the practice in 2021. She has worked on several projects within the education, culture, leisure and housing sectors at various stages, assisting on competition bids and project development.

Evelyna graduated with a First-Class degree from the University of Nottingham, where she explored how future built environments must tackle emergent and existing socio-economic and environmental issues. This ethos was developed in her Part I thesis project, which became an exploration into the paramount importance of the adaptive reuse of Croydon’s derelict buildings, through sustainable and technological interventions.

During her studies she interned at AHMM and Jo Cowen Architects, working on residential and master planning projects. Upon finishing architecture degree, Evelyna initially pursued her interest in graphic design, working in the branding and animation industries for several years. This enabled her to develop a philosophy that understands design as an interdisciplinary collaboration of ideas and intentions to best respond to contemporary needs and future issues.

Beyond architecture, Evelyna enjoys anything creative. Her weekends are spent starting new craft projects or going on photography walks in and around London.

Caroline joined Tate+Co in 2016. Her role has evolved from Practice Manager to Business Director where she now oversees the running of the company, along with the other directors.

Previously her career was in the financial sector, where she worked for over twelve years. She was the Head of Debt Capital Markets for a UK Bank, where she was responsible for running a multi-billion pound funding and liquidity programme in both the domestic and international markets.

More recently she has worked with Nissen Richards Architects and New Link Consulting as their Business Manager.

Caroline studied at Trinity College Dublin, where she received her degree in Business, Economics and Social Studies (Hons) and subsequently a Masters in Economics and Finance from Maynooth University.