Rebecca Plaza

Founder, Plaza + Partners

Rebecca Plaza is the founder of Plaza + Partners, an interdisciplinary team of architects, interior designers and urban planners, working together to develop sustainable design solutions that are sensitive to the end users needs and aspirations, supported by rigorous research and attention to detail. Since its establishment in 2015, the practice has worked on numerous public markets, community and commercial centers, hotels and civic buildings.

Alongside this, Rebecca is the Festival Director of the annual Anthology Architecture and Design Festival, a three day event that brings together over 5000 local and international practitioners in the built environment in hope for creating better, socially relevant architecture. Prior to this, Rebecca worked at two of Britains top architectural firms: Jestico + Whiles and John McAslan and Partners. Rebecca graduated from the University of Bath where she was awarded the Sir Basil Spence Design Prize by HRH Prince Edward for exceptional multi-disciplinary design.

Rebecca did design and research programs at the Architectural Association in London and The University of Hong Kong. She was awarded the Gold Medal in the 2016 Asia’s Young Designer Awards and named one of Lifestyle Asia’s 30 Gamechangers of 2017 and featured as People Asia’s People of the Year 2017.

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