Laura is the founder of MARR Architects. She is a passionate and dedicated architect, highly skilled in design and project leadership, with a career spanning 25 years in award-winning leading London practices.

Laura completed her studies at University of Westminster whilst gaining experience in various multi-disciplinary design-led firms, most formative were Pentagram, and Matthew Lloyd Architects working on small contemporary contextual projects.

Laura’s experience as a fully qualified architect includes 12 years at Edward Cullinan Architects followed by 12 years at Pollard Thomas Edwards. 

At Edward Cullinan Architects, Laura had the privilege of working as a director alongside RIBA Gold Medallist Ted Cullinan on a wide range of innovative pioneering projects, including schools, universities, mixed-use health, cultural, community, commercial, housing, and masterplans. Here, she developed her skills in legible sustainable design, carefully crafted detailing, and project and practice management. Laura was the project architect on various school and housing projects from inception to completion. She designed and led a transformative primary school with a performing arts specialism and an award-winning mixed-use housing project in the historic Gloucester Docks. She also led the Design Review team to monitor and critique ongoing projects and has spoken widely at industry conferences and talks on school design.

At Pollard Thomas Edwards, Laura was an associate and led project teams on the delivery, technical detailing, coordination, and completion of several large, complex, residential-led mixed-use regeneration developments, successfully delivering over 1,000 dwellings on former industrial sites in London, and the largest new build primary school in the UK.

Currently Laura also works at Transport for London (TfL) public sector client side, as a senior architect/ engineer, reviewing architect’s proposals for heritage station upgrades and designing/ drawing in-house design proposals.

Laura enjoys teaching and has been a visiting design tutor, critic, and lecturer at several leading schools of architecture, including Queen’s University Belfast, and the Universities of Bath, Plymouth, East London, and Cambridge. She has mentored RIBA Part 3 students for many years and set up and managed the student mentoring programme at Pollard Thomas Edwards.

Alongside practice, Laura co-designed and realised her self-build project, Front Line House, which was longlisted for Don’t Move, Improve! 2017, NLA's annual programme and competition celebrating the newest and most innovative home improvement projects across London.

Laura is a registered RIBA Client Advisor, specialising in the sectors: houses, housing and schools including new-build and remodelling projects. For more information see Client Advisers.