Prewett Bizley was established in 2005. Having met as students Graham Bizley and Robert Prewett have been working together informally on projects and competitions for more than 15 years.

Graham was born in 1969 and studied at Bath University and the ESTAB in Barcelona. He worked for various offices in the UK, India and Zimbabwe, most recently at Panter Hudspith Architects. He writes regular building reviews and produces a fortnightly construction detail feature for Building Design.

Robert was born in 1970 and studied at Bath University and the Technische Universiteit in Delft. He has worked for Feilden Clegg Bradley, Christian Kieckens in Belgium and for Jo Coenen in the Netherlands. He has been a visiting tutor at the University of Greenwich, Canterbury School of Architecture and the University of Plymouth.

Graham has extensive experience of designing innovative contemporary architecture in historically sensitive urban and rural locations. With Panter Hudspith he was project architect for five new retail units on Davygate in York with a curved stone and glass façade that won an RIBA and Civic Trust Award.

The practice is particularly interested in public space and housing design. At Feilden Clegg Bradley, Robert was responsible for design and implementation of a student hall of residence for Queen Mary's University that won a Housing Design Award in 2005. He also played a key role in design of an integrated sustainable community in the central London district of Shoreditch that includes a 25 storey housing scheme for key workers.

Through a series of competition entries and master-planning schemes the practice has taken a stand for high quality, inclusive public space. Proposals such as the Isle of Dogs Framework use public space as the catalyst for creating a sustainable community, treating the spaces between buildings as places where different types of human exchange and interaction overlap.

The work of Prewett Bizley is founded on an intense study of the specific character of a place and the aspirations of the users. Their current work includes several new houses for individual clients that make very particular responses to constrained sites. Their first completed project, the Newington Green House has been published widely, notably in the RIBA Journal, Architectural Review and Grand Designs Magazine.

Prewett Bizley were tipped by The Independent's architecture critic Jay Merrick as one of 'The Faces to Watch in 2006'.

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