Julian Bicknell Associates - Architecture of Fine Quality

Personnel

The Principal

Julian Bicknell

Julian Bicknell

MA Dip Arch RIBA FRSA AWG

Julian Bicknell (b 1945) was educated at Winchester College and Kings College, Cambridge where he completed both MA and Dip Arch courses at the University of Cambridge Department of Architecture. He subsequently worked with Edward Cullinan (1969-72).

He joined the teaching staff at the Royal College of Art under Sir Hugh Casson in 1972, and became director of the Royal College of Art Project Office (1973-79). In 1979 he joined Arup Associates. He set up his own practice in 1983.

His early career was concerned with the modification, alteration and restoration of existing buildings, many of them of considerable historic importance. Since establishing his own practice he has been increasingly involved in the design and construction of new buildings, in which the lessons of history are combined with contemporary architectural thinking and technology.

Despite a growing number of building projects, he continues to teach in Britain, and abroad. He was deeply involved in the development of the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture between 1990 and 2000, on the Academic Board and as a teacher, both at the Institute itself and also at the ground-breaking international Summer Schools in Italy, Germany, France and the UK. He has also taught and lectured in the USA, Russia and Japan. In 2013 Julian Bicknell was elected Master of the Art Workers' Guild.

Julian Bicknell has two grown-up children and lives in Twickenham with his wife, the painter Treld Pelkey Bicknell.

Publications, Papers & Exhibitions
  • The Design for Need Papers. (joint Editor with Liz McQuiston)
  • Oxford: Pergamon 1978
  • Rehabiltation and Conversion. (Contributor)
  • London: Newnes-Butterworth 1980
  • Vision of Britain Exhibition. (Contributor)
  • London: Victoria & Albert Museum 1990
  • Building Classical.(Contributor)
  • London: Academy Editions 1993
  • Hiroshige in Tokyo.
  • San Francisco: Pomegranate 1994
  • Great Buildings of the World. (with Steve Chapman)
  • New York: Clarkson Potter 1995
  • Julian Bicknell & Associates - Buildings and Projects 1972-95.
  • London: The Prince of Wales Institute 1996
  • The New English Country House.
  • London: RIBA 2003
  • Traditional Architects Group Exhibition.
  • London:Prince of Wales Institute 2005
  • Vittone a Grignasco - L'Assunta. (Contributor)
  • Grignasco: Comune di Grignasco 2006
  • Julian Bicknell & Associates - Designs & Buildings 2001-2016.
  • Bernardo Vittone: Architect of the Trancendental 2021
Societies

Associates Past and Present

  • Kevin Leadingham
  • Peter Bekx
  • Gerry Cahill
  • Steve Chapman
  • Iain Exley
  • Ashley Leeman
  • Chris Hay
  • Mark Hudson
  • Shaun Knight
  • Mike McEvoy
  • Robert Morris
  • Duncan Moss
  • Jeremy Spencer

Designers Past and Present

  • Howard Vie
  • Robert Ryan
  • Stephen Sherrin
  • David Bellis
  • Ben Bolgar
  • Jonathon Cater
  • Donna Chong
  • Sergei Chvedov
  • Paul Craven-Bartle
  • Barry Dacey
  • Duncan Dalgleish
  • Sean Dockry
  • Jon Elliot
  • Mark Fawke
  • Alex Gamelas
  • Saad Ghandour
  • Martin Herman
  • Stephen Jones
  • Rob Loader
  • Sandhya McGowan
  • Nick Nickerson
  • Tim Offer
  • John Onyangoh
  • Ab Halim Orr
  • Hugh Petter
  • Jenny Playle
  • Marica Rajcic
  • Andi Rowland
  • Kevin Rhowbotham
  • George Saumarez-Smith
  • Andrei Serov
  • Bridget Sheppard
  • Lucy Sheppard
  • Taida Skaljic
  • Robert Taylor
  • Nick Toft
  • Kristin Utz
  • Tim Wells
  • Lane Whitaker
  • Sarah Wigglesworth
  • Chris Williams

Artists, Craftsmen & Professionals

  • Dick Reid - carver
  • Sue Scullard - wood engraver
  • Richard Armiger - model maker
  • Lucinda Lambton - photographer
  • Felix Kelly - painter
  • Giuliano Zampi - computer artist
  • Felix Kelly - painter
  • Richard Grasby - letter cutter
  • Stephen Bicknell - organ designer
  • Simon Verity - figure sculptor
  • Ian Jacob - furniture maker
  • Laurence Tindall - sculptor
  • Ken Buffery - perspective artist
  • George Rome Innes - model maker
  • Viv Richards - graphic designer
  • Simon Jones - perspective artist
  • Mary Fox Linton - interior designer
  • David Mlinaric - interior designer
  • Dierdre Hyde - garden designer
  • Dominic Cole - landscape designer
  • Richard Hannay - landscape designer
  • Stephen Revels - structural engineer
  • Ray Elms - structural engineer
  • Andy Barrett - structural engineer
  • Charlie Wymer - structural engineer
  • John Bachelor - structural engineer
  • Ron Marsh - contract manager
  • Peter Thorp - quantity surveyor
  • Bob Dyer - services consultant
  • Peter Goldfinger - services consultant
  • Philip Mann - graphic designer
  • Richard Carman - Perspective Artist
  • Salvatore Autorino - Architcet
  • John Ronayne - Exhibition Designer
  • Yasuo Fujiwara – Architect
  • Terry Odle – Graphic Designer
  • Jane Brown – Landscape Designer

Administrative Staff Past and Present

  • Susan Clarke
  • Angie Baxter
  • Jennifer Bright
  • Polly Ingerson
  • Ellen Johansen
  • Maxine Maas
  • Nadia Siam
  • Joy Thompson
  • Eda Watts

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Julian Bicknell & Associates is a London based architectural practice of thirty years standing, specialising in quality buildings, interiors and landscapes - mainly in classical or traditional style. The practice has worked for private clients and developers all over the UK and in Japan, Russia, the USA, Morocco, Germany and Kazakhstan. The work includes spacious country houses, luxury homes on the prestige estates at Wentworth and St. Georges Hill, museums, restaurants, theatres, schools, a golf club and modifications to important historic buildings. The design philosophy combines a deep sympathy for traditional design and building methods, with a full understanding of energy strategies and construction management. The practice works closely with other professionals and experienced craftsmen to achieve low-energy buildings of real quality within predetermined budgets.

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