Managing Director, Marks Barfield Architects
Julia Barfield, MBE RIBA FRSA, is the Managing Director of multi award winning practice Marks Barfield Architects – co-founded with her late husband David Marks. Best known for designing the London Eye and the i360 in Brighton; Marks Barfield Architects has diverse experience across many sectors – from culture, education and workplace to bridges, transport, sports and leisure and has strived to build sustainably since the practice was formed over thirty years ago.
However, in 2018 it became clear that conventional sustainability is no longer enough, so Julia sits on the steering group of Architects Declare and lectures on the responses needed to the climate and environmental emergency. She sits on several quality and award judging panels, examines at the University of Bath and is an honorary professor at Queen’s University, Belfast. The Lantern, London, is nearing completion and is an exemplar in workplace wellbeing. Last year the Cambridge Central Mosque won four regional RIBA awards, an RIBA National award, and was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize.
