Denizen Works makes architecture with other ideas.
We design singular projects naturalised to their context. Our work is shaped by stories of site and the biography of you, the client. We’re an optimistic international studio that treats every project as a shared endeavour. We embrace constraints as a mechanism to allow us to imagine more. In the resultant designs you can find the familiar, the joyful and the unexpected: it reads legibly, with a rich and complex tone.
You'll enjoy working with us.
Studio & staff
Murray Kerr
Founding Director
Murray established Denizen Works in 2010, leading the practice to a number of prestigious awards including multiple RIBA National Awards, BD Architect of the Year and the Stephen Lawrence Prize. Murray oversees the creative and strategic output of the office, building strong relationships with clients and project teams to deliver exceptional buildings.
Murray has lectured widely and chaired the RIBA London awards jury, was a judge of the RIAS Doolan Prize in 2018 and acts as an external examiner at architecture schools across the UK. In addition, he has been leading a number of architecture workshops for children looking to build on his earlier thesis on the possibilities of play being utilised as part of the creative process.
As Denizen Works evolves, Murray continues to seek out projects and clients that are keen to work with creative people to find solutions to both architectural and strategic problems.
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Yuto Fujii
Associate
Yuto joined Denizen Works in 2020 to assist in the delivery of a range of challenging projects requiring careful detailing and coordination, at masterplan, site and individual building levels. Since joining Denizen Works, Yuto has been leading a number of residential projects for developer and private clients, including a mixed-use development in West London, a timber modular house research and development project for an international MMC housing developer, and a family home for a private client on a sea-side plot in Onomichi, Japan.
Yuto is a technical tutor and guest critic at Greenwich University and has lectured at universities in Japan. He was the co-curator at the Japanese Junction London exhibition in Clerkenwell, which gave 20 Japanese architects and designers based in the UK an opportunity to present their work to the wider public.
Yuto is keen to work on projects from different parts of the world as he continues to explore his interest in the role of indigenous craft, construction method and material use in architecture.
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Rebecca Woodward
Architect
Since joining Denizen Works in 2019, Rebecca has been involved in projects across the practice's portfolio, with a particular focus on the reuse and refurbishment of existing buildings. She has led the delivery of Barn B and Red Flint Barn and is currently developing a series of sensitive conversion projects in London, Edinburgh and the Cairngorms.
Rebecca undertook her architectural studies at the University of Cambridge, where her master's research explored the spatial challenges of urban schools and methods for teenage learning in today's 'culture of distraction'. As part of this research, Rebecca undertook a fieldwork placement in the US, volunteering at the New York Centre for Architecture to help deliver architectural design workshops for local school children.
Having grown up on the west coast of Cornwall, Rebecca has a particular interest in rural environments and enjoys architecture that creates harmony with the natural landscape and local vernacular.
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