Jack Penford Baker

BA, MA, MArch, ARB

jack@hapticarchitects.com

Jack is an award-winning architect and lecturer, and an Associate at Haptic. He leads on the studios early design work, retrofit, and large urban projects. As an architect, lecturer and mentor he is keen to bring his voice to the conversation about design in our urban environment. Jack strives for good quality and fair design in both his professional built work, and the work of his students. At Haptic this is seen in his early involvement in the visioning of projects, helping to generate the ideas needed for transformational regeneration.

With a Masters in Architecture and Urbanism, and having worked across the country and abroad in the Netherlands, he has learnt a great deal about the topic of design and the role it has to play in creating a better, healthier, safer and more diverse world in which we all live and participate in.

Since becoming a member of Haptic he has led a range of large scale masterplans, and deep retrofit schemes, helping to improve and harness our in-house sustainability group Haptic Green’s workflow, embedding sustainability principles in the core of our projects. Jack has developed Haptic’s inhouse capabilities around early stage carbon measuring, and led the implementation of an embedded model for sustainability within a project’s team structure. The results being seen in the transformation of 300 Gray’s Inn Road, a deep retrofit of an unloved 1970’s commercial building in central London, into new workspace and homes.

Jack leads much of our acquisitions in the UK, with a focus in new sustainable ways of living at a residential-led masterplan scale. Additionally he has worked on a range of prestigious international competitions, managing complex teams and design briefs, whilst maintaining a rich design language.