Alex de Rijke – The Architecture of Health

Professor Alex de Rijke is a founding Director of dRMM, having established the practice in 1995 with Philip Marsh and Sadie Morgan. He is a design champion, responsible for the concept, construction and delivery of dRMM’s timber projects including Sliding House, Kingsdale School, WorkStack, Tower of Love, Endless Stair, WoodBlock House, Maggie’s Oldham, and the Stirling Prize-winning Hastings Pier.

De Rijke was appointed as the first ever Professor of Timber Architecture at TU Delft in 2023 and has extensive teaching experience at various institutions including London South Bank University, the Düsseldorf School of Architecture, and the Architectural Association. He was Dean of Architecture at the Royal College of Art from 2011-2015, instigating a new culture of making and prototyping.

Through his championing of the need to build using timber and low carbon materials, dRMM were the first UK architecture practice to make public buildings in CLT and have since the 1990s consistently been able to innovate and improve sustainable design through real projects.