RCKa is a people-focused practice of architects, designers and policy makers.

Alan Beveridge is an Associate Director at RCKa, with extensive experience in the design and delivery of regeneration, mixed-use and masterplanning projects. He specialises in unlocking the potential of complex and constrained urban sites, balancing creative ambition with robust, deliverable strategy.

Alan has worked closely with a broad range of clients, stakeholders, consultants, contractors and communities across multiple sectors, shaping projects from early vision through to completion. His portfolio includes the successful delivery of award-winning schemes such as the Highgate Newtown Community Centre, TNG Youth & Community Centre, and the Ryde and Begbroke masterplans.

His approach is grounded in a belief that successful places are defined by a deep understanding of people and context, where design quality and practicality go hand in hand. He champions thoughtful, people-centred placemaking, using design to strengthen communities, enhance local character and create lasting social value.

Alongside his role at RCKa, Alan contributes to the wider profession as a member of four quality review panels, and has previously acted as a consultee for the HSE Building Safety Regulator and RIBA, providing insight on fire safety compliance and design guardian roles.

Annabel joined RCKa in April 2026 as Studio Assistant, bringing a background in contemporary art and curating. She holds a Master’s in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, where her work explored civic space and community engagement.

Annabel is interested in collaborative approaches to creative practice, particularly how shared, non-verbal processes can support inclusive and accessible ways of working. Her experience informs her role in supporting the studio’s communications, projects, culture and wider engagement with communities.

Eloise joined RCKa in early 2026, bringing experience across a range of RIBA stages through work in both established design studios and independent freelance practice. With a background in project management and client liaison, she approaches architecture holistically, integrating research, community engagement and narrative-led design into her work.

She completed her MArch at Central Saint Martins in 2022, where her research focused on feminist practices of care and how architecture can better support mental health while addressing bias within the built environment.

Since joining the practice, Eloise has contributed to a diverse range of projects including Surbiton High Street, part of the Mayor of London’s High Street Place Labs Programme aiming to revitalise local economies and improve public spaces. She enjoys the collaborative and socially driven nature of RCKa’s design process and our critical, narrative-led lens.

Alongside her professional work, Eloise is a Young Trustee of the Architecture Foundation, advocating for underrepresented voices in the built environment. She is part of a research cluster, with a fellow RCKa employee Oliver Simpson, exploring queer space in the built environment. She continues to be actively involved in broader architectural discourse and is committed to bringing critical, community-focused thinking into practice.

Emily is a recently qualified architect at RCKa. She is currently contributing to strategic small sites policy work alongside leading an adjacent small sites pilot scheme in London. Prior to this, Emily helped progress Filwood Broadway from concept through to technical design, and contributed to the design development of the Northern Gateway site for Sutton Council,  a new home for an adult learning college.

Emily is passionate about widening access to the profession and is heavily involved in RCKa’s Social Value and Education Working Group, most often through work experience programmes including Open City’s Accelerate. She also contributes to RCKa’s CPD programme including presenting changes to the GLA Housing Design Standards. She also plays a leading role in the practice’s culture working group.

Emily graduated from the MArch programme at the London School of Architecture in 2023, where her thesis explored ways to preserve and promote backstage culture amidst large-scale regeneration in the city.

Chris joined RCKa in 2020, bringing to the practice an extensive experience in the education sector. Having led a project to design an exemplar SEND school and therapy centre in Surrey for the Children’s Trust, Chris is currently leading on a new adult learning centre for Sutton Council – a new home for Sutton College in a key location on Sutton High Street.

He previously collaborated with Hawkins\Brown on the Begbroke Innovation Park and housing masterplan for Oxford University Development.

Chris has extensive experience running projects through all stages from brief development with multiple stakeholder groups, to detailed design and overseeing projects to completion on-site.

Dieter is a founding director of RCKa and leads on our community and social asset projects. He is an expert in project enablement, funding and social impact advice for local authorities, housing associations, and third sector groups.

Dieter’s focus is to make things happen. His strategic advice and exceptional design and stakeholder management skills are proven to unlock opportunities and secure local support. He has delivered numerous complex and national award-winning projects over the years, including TNG Youth & Community Centre for Lewisham Council, which recently celebrated its 10th year with a ‘test-of-time‘ award in recognition of its ongoing impact. He is currently leading the re-imagination of Weston-super-Mare’s iconic beachfront event venue The Tropicana.

He is a Design South-East design review panel Chair, and a Design Council Expert. He also sits on Kingston, Ashford, Haringey and chairs the Sutton Design Review Panels. He is a co-founder of Architects Aware that seeks to tackle homelessness and an external examiner for Central St Martins undergraduate architecture course.

Jess Joined RCKa in 2025 after graduating from The University of Sheffield where she was awarded a distinction and RIBA Silver Medal nomination. Her thesis explored a speculative moratorium on new construction in Sheffield, using sites like the former Debenhams building to examine principles of DIY, degrowth, and disorder through radical reuse. It challenges conventional urban development and proposes a porous, incomplete architectural typology supporting community-led housing shaped by urban mining.

Previously Jess worked at practices in Sheffield working across a range of housing and education projects, and also freelanced as a designer specialising in, self-build design and construction, material research, with an emphasis on user engagement and co-production.

Since joining RCKa, Jess has worked on several small-site projects, leading the concept design for Grounds Avenue a backland infill housing scheme for Fenland District Council in Cambridgeshire, designed for delivery using MMC techniques.

Jess completed her MArch at Northumbria School of Architecture in 2025 before joining RCKa. Her thesis explored how architecture can respond to the complex economic, social and environmental challenges of an ageing population.

Since joining the practice, Jess has contributed to work on the London Plan Small Sites Design Code, an experience that continues to inform her involvement across a range of small site developments in the Greater London area for various local authorities. Her role has involved supporting design development, research and coordination across multiple projects, with an interest in delivering thoughtful, well-designed and affordable homes. In parallel, she has worked on projects exploring the use of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) as a means of delivering efficient, well-designed housing on constrained urban sites.

Katie joined RCKa in 2022, after completing the MArch programme at The University of Edinburgh where she was awarded a distinction and shortlisted for The RIAS Architecture and Design Scotland Urban Design Award. It was at The Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture where she embarked upon a two-year integrated studio unit with an in-depth commitment to ‘research through making’.

Katie has a passion for sensitive and socially conscious architecture with thoughtful detailing and purpose. She has worked on the successful planning application submission for the Broadfields Estate infill scheme, Birmingham Smithfield and qualified as an Architect in March 2023.

She is helping to deliver Boughton Heath through the construction phases. Alongside project work, Katie leads the Software and Templates Working Group and has successfully implemented new systems and efficiencies within the practice.

Ollie joined RCKa in June 2024 after graduating from the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art. Their multi award winning thesis titled “Towards a Transgender Architecture” explored links between the trans experience and alternative building practices, designing a series of interventions in the French city of Marseille.

Previously Ollie worked at Karakusevic Carson Architects, on a range of civic and masterplaning projects.

Since joing RCKa, Ollie has worked on housing, educational and innovative MMC schemes for councils across London, and is currently leading the interior fit-out of a specialist adult learning college for the London Borough of Sutton.

Rosie joined RCKa as Operations Director in February 2026, bringing a track record of senior leadership in fast-moving, specialist industries. Prior to RCKa, she spent over a decade at a global art world recruitment agency, rising to Managing Director. There she steered the business through a founder exit, the pandemic, and the launch of offices in New York and Los Angeles, building deep expertise in strategic planning, people leadership, and organisational growth.

At RCKa, Rosie leads the operational and strategic infrastructure of the practice, with responsibility spanning finance, people & culture, marketing, and operations. She has driven new frameworks for mentoring and professional development and leads the practice’s ISO audit programme. She is also RCKa’s Mental Health First Aider, reflecting her commitment to building a supportive and high-performing workplace culture.

Rosie holds a BA in Art History and an MA in Art Business.

Russell is a founding director of RCKa and leads the practice’s urban projects, policy and research. He is chair of the London Borough of Barnet’s Quality Review Panel and is a Design Advocate for the Mayor of London, providing specialist guidance on commissioning and design quality.

His spatial research work into London’s golf courses, rural station development and suburban intensification has received national media attention, including appearances on television and radio, as well as frequent coverage in the mainstream press. He is currently leading the development of a London-wide small site design code, which will form a key part of the next London Plan, and has developed a geospatial AI tool which received £100,000 grant funding from the Geovation PropTech Innovation Fund.

Sam joined RCKa in 2020, having graduated from Sheffield School of Architecture. Sam’s MArch thesis explored alternative means of architectural production, building upon the school’s ‘Live Projects’ programme through the repurposing of a local modernist landmark into a new civic typology, centred around the collaborative production of the built environment.

Since joining the practice, Sam has worked across a range of projects including Sutton College – a new adult learning centre located on Sutton High Street and The Willowbury – a 140-dwelling retirement living community in West Malling. Sam has helped develop the practice’s approach to small-site development, leading on Scylla Road – a 12-dwelling community land trust project with London CLT in Southwark, as well as Deptford Broadway – a commercial-to-residential urban infill retrofit scheme in Deptford.

Sam is also engaged in the practice’s ongoing research projects – most recently developing propositions for RCKa’s Locomotopia, New Homes in New Ways, and Holes to Homes research pieces.

Simonpietro is an architect from Rome with a main interest in the reuse, preservation and transformation of existing buildings, a focus developed during his studies at the AA School and through several London-based practices, including Piercy&Co, Groupwork and David Chipperfield Architects.

Since joining RCKa in 2024, Simonpietro has worked on residential and housing projects, developing the potential of existing underutilised sites as opportunities for urban repair and placemaking. He currently leads Design Guardian roles and early-stage capacity work. Outside RCKa, he runs palinsesto, a multidisciplinary design practice.

Tim is a founding director of RCKa, with experience in delivering large scale regeneration projects and strategic masterplanning. He is responsible for delivering the practice’s residential work with a keen understanding of market-sensitive development and its regeneration potential. He leads projects through early strategic design and urban design stages with an opportunity-led approach to design, focused on community cohesion and social infrastructure.

He has delivered numerous award-winning projects over the years including seven Housing Design Award winning projects including Hortsley, the winner of the 2019 HAPPI Award. He is currently leading the delivery of three large net-zero-carbon later living projects for Retirement Villages Group.

Tim is chair of Hertfordshire’s Design Review Panel.