Jessica Barker

  • Jessica Barker is co-founder of Stolon Studio, the award-winning practice she runs with her husband Robert. Jessica is passionate about...
    Jessica Barker is co-founder of Stolon Studio, the award-winning practice she runs with her husband Robert.

    Jessica is passionate about the ability of the built environment to deliver transformational change. In recent years she has developed an approach she terms ‘sociable architecture’, designing a number of schemes which prioritise well-being, community and sustainability. Stolon Studio’s Kaolin Court scheme was recently awarded Place of the Year at the Festival of Place, acknowledged for ‘challenging the status quo to create something unique and beautiful’.
     
    Jessica won the RIBA’s Emerging Architect award in 2019 for her multi award-winning project Barn House, a thoughtfully crafted family home inspired by its landscape setting and featured on Channel 4’s Grand Designs.
  • Prior to setting up Stolon Studio, Jessica spent the formative years of her career working on range of diverse and creative environments at practices including Ron Arad, Alison Brooks and Seifert Architects, where her projects included a 5-star hotel for Nobu in Shoreditch, Onion house, a luxury kit house, schools, nurseries, international exhibitions, installations, and footwear designs.
     
    Jessica is an RIBA Awards Jury Chair this year, a visiting critic at University of Westminster, sits on the Southwark Design Review Panel, and also works at local schools as part of outreach and diversity programmes.  She is also a Fire Safety campaigner.