Robert is co-founder of Stolon Studio. He is passionate about developing climate adaptive designs that help to improve placemaking and the wider environment. He is also leading the practice’s research into biodiversity integration.
Prior to setting up Stolon Studio, Robert co-founded Baca Architects in 2003, a practice with a specialism in ‘aquatecture’: design addressing the relationship between the built environment and water. Here, Robert was responsible for a number of innovative projects and was twice recipient of the RIBA President’s Award for Research, in 2009 for the Long-term initiatives for Flood-risk Environments (LifE) project, and in 2014 for the Climate Adaptive Neighbourhoods (CAN) project.
Robert has written widely on the on the subject of architecture and water, including ‘Cities and Flooding’ 2012, ‘Urban Flood Management’ 2010, and ‘The LifE Project’ in 2009. He co-authored the Metric Handbook Flood Aware Chapter (2015) and the RIBA book - Aquatecture (2016).
