Victoria Perry

• Practice Director
• MSc DipArch PhD RIBA

Victoria joined the practice in 2012, having previously been a teaching fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. A qualified and experienced architect and historian, Victoria has an up-to-date understanding of strategic conservation, planning and heritage policies, advising clients such as the Crown Estate, Sotheby’s, the MOD, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as well as many private developers.  She retains links with the Bartlett as an external examiner on the MA course Architecture and Historic Urban Environments.

Victoria  served on the Twentieth Century Society Buildings Committee for eight years, is the author of Built for a Better Future (1994), a monograph about one of Britain’s seminal post-war industrial buildings, and has co-written and presented BBC TV programmes about British and German approaches to industrial heritage.

Victoria has a particular interest and expertise in the links between buildings, landscapes and the former British Empire  Her Ph.D. on British architecture and Caribbean plantations won the RIBA President’s Award  for Outstanding PhD research in 2010 and is published as A Bittersweet Heritage: Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape (2022). Her work has also been published in the Oxford Companion to Black British History (2007) and English Heritage’s Slavery and the British Country House (2013).