The ACA is unencumbered with a large bureaucracy and can respond quickly and efficiently to members’ concerns and enquiries. ACA Council, presided by the President, runs the Association and deals with all issues.

Council members are elected democratically by and from the voting membership. Councillors are elected for a three-year term, renewable once for a further three years. Council is chaired by the ACA President who with other nominated officers are elected by Council, at the first meeting after the AGM each year.

The other principal offices of Council are Hon Secretary and Hon Treasurer. From time to time, Vice Presidents may be appointed. ACA Council is the single organ of governance of the organisation and has no further points of reference. It is thus capable of swift movement in the face of important issues and is directly approachable by the membership.

Council aspires to a “Cabinet” style of operation with individual council members adopting specific responsibilities or leading working groups and subcommittees. The ACA Planning Action Group is typical of the specialist groups that also cover education, student membership, press liaison and other topical issues. Council is supported by the Secretary General, the Director of Enterprise and the Chief Operating Officer, who also deal with general ACA business and the day-to-day running of the organisation.

RIBA, ARB, FIFireE, FASFP, FIIRSM, RMaPS

Paul is an architect with over 40 years experience of architectural practice including job running and consultancy. He has developed a technical expertise in the application of all types of building related legislation and constructional guidance. He represents AHMM Architects Technical Consulting team providing solutions and regulatory compliance to assist project teams to meet their statutory and contractual obligations on all projects.

Paul is particularly interested in how regulations in all “people risk” areas of architecture including fire, safety, and health, integrate with day to day project risk management especially at design stages, in a proportionate manner.

He was involved with the HSE’s development of the CDM 2007 and 2015 regulations on behalf of the RIBA. He was a member of the HSE IICC & BS 8671 PD Committees, and current Chair of both the CONIAC KPWC & CIC Health, Safety & Wellbeing Committee, and a current member of the RIBA Fire Expert Advisory Group, and assisting their delivery of the previous and forthcoming Principal Designer Course. He is also a member of the CLC& BSR Task & Finish group developing proportionate and deliverable guidance for integration of the new Building Safety Act & Building regulatory change.

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BA (Hons) DipArch (Oxford) RIBA FRSA AABC

Philip Waddy has over forty years of experience as a Partner or Principal in private practice, specialising in project management, planning and historic building conservation.

He is an accredited conservation architect, overseeing the heritage output of WWA including Conservation Area appraisals and Conservation Impact assessments for projects in sensitive Conservation settings. He is passionate about building conservation having undertaken many sensitive heritage projects several of which have received Civic Trust and other national and regional awards. Philip works with many churches within the Oxford Diocese, undertaking quinquennial inspections, repairs, and larger-scale alteration and extension schemes.

In August 2025, Philip stepped down as a Director of WWA and now acts as a consultant to the practice, focusing primarily on heritage and conservation work. The following month saw Philip voted as ‘Leader of the Year’ at the Oxfordshire Property Festival, a fitting recognition of his leadership throughout his career.

Current projects include rebuilding of the east facing parapet at St Andrews Church, Hagbourne, Oxfordshire and the restoration of No 5 Battery, Stokes Bay Lines in Hampshire, a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

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Dip. Arch. (Manc.), Dip. Cons. (A.A.), R.I.B.A., I.H.B.C., F.R.S.A., A,C. Arch.

Andrew was a partner, then Director, of a longstanding small Sheffield Practice, latterly Elden Minns & Co. Ltd., specialising in conservation and ecclesiastical work.  Having completed the Architectural Association postgraduate Diploma in Building Conservation, he was invited to join the course staff, and contributed for the next 13 years.  Arising from that, he has regularly participated over many years, in training programmes for young professionals in Transylvania and many of the Balkan countries, particularly Albania.  He is a Trustee of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust.

Andrew Shepherd Architect

MArch ARB RIBA

RIBA Chartered Architect and interior designer, trained at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy. Her professional background spans architecture, interiors and design education, including involvement in the design and delivery of the Olympic Village for the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics. From 2007 to 2014, she taught and coordinated the Interior Design CSP at IED – Istituto Europeo di Design in Turin.

Daniela moved to London in 2014 and now runs her own independent practice, specialising in residential architecture and interiors. Her work brings architecture and interior design together within a single design process, across individual homes, complex refurbishments, extensions and small-scale residential developments.

As a member of the ACA Council, Daniela is particularly interested in representing the perspective of small architectural practices and contributing to discussions around the evolving responsibilities, challenges and opportunities facing architects in practice.

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Dip Arch, ACA, ARB, RIBA

Tara de Linde is a RIBA-chartered architect with more than 25 years’ experience spanning professional practice, architectural education and assessment. She is Founder and Director of Atelier de Linde Ltd, an award-winning RIBA Chartered Practice specialising in sustainable residential, education and heritage projects, including listed buildings and sensitive Green Belt sites. She leads projects from initial briefing and design through planning, procurement, contract administration and delivery, alongside the strategic management of the practice.

Alongside practice, Tara is Course Director for Professional Studies at the University of Cambridge, lectures at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Malaquais in Paris, and is a Part III Examiner at the Bartlett, UCL, and the RIBA. She is governor of an independent secondary school, where she advises on finance and property development, and a judge for the British Homes Awards.

Tara brings extensive experience in practice leadership, education, assessment and governance to the ACA Council, together with a strong commitment to professional standards and supporting the next generation of architects.

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AADip RIBA ACArch

After studying at the AA, where he was student union treasurer, Andrew worked for, amongst others, Owen Luder and Middle East pioneer John R Harris before becoming a partner in Johnston & Mather

He has run Andrew Catto Architects Ltd. in Putney since 1999, providing a start-to-finish service to hundreds of residential, commercial and schools clients across SW London and Surrey. Andrew has a passion for both traditional construction and sustainable design, and has completed courses with the SPAB and Green Register. Like all those who deal regularly with the planning system he understands the need for accuracy and knowing the rules. This makes him an efficient and
exemplary Honorary Secretary. Somehow he manages to combine this with running the Buildings Panel for his local amenity society.

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MA(Cantab) DipArch ARB RIBA ACArch

Patrick co-founded IBLA (as Inglis Badrashi) with Jamal Badrashi in 2000, and is one of three directors of the practice. He is responsible for new business and practice management, and takes a leading role in the strategic, feasibility and planning stages of IBLA’s projects. Patrick completed his Degree and Diploma at Cambridge University before studying at UCL where he qualified in 2000. Before founding the practice Patrick worked at ORMS and 20/20. With more than 20 years of experience in the industry, he has been responsible for award-winning projects across a wide range of sectors and scales. He is a Council member of the Association of Consultant Architects (ACA), a keen footballer, and a former Governor of Archbishop Sumner Primary School in Kennington.

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BA (Hons) MArch (Harv) RIBA

Alfred Munkenbeck was educated in Switzerland and the USA finishing with a M Arch at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.   After making a movie of Stirling’s History Faculty Building as a student, he worked with Stirling and Wilford on the various German projects and eventually the construction drawings for the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie extension.  From there Alfred went to Athens where he was chief designer for a Saudi Firm doing new towns, palaces and entire universities.  Returning to London, this liaison enabled the beginning of Munkenbeck+Marshall who “ghost” designed the competition winning scheme for Umm Al Qura University, the largest architectural project in the world in 1985.  Alfred was design tutor at Cambridge University, the AA and Kingston Polytechnic.  The firm went on to win new build London projects which began winning awards.  In 1999 they won the Stephen Lawrence Award of the Stirling prize for the New Art Centre  Roche Court, a building with a budget of £100,000.   After winning competitions for the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the Jerwood Space extension, the partnership split and was renamed Munkenbeck and Partners in 2008.  Alfred Munkenbeck continues to run the firm whilst  also pursuing some property development and serving on the RBK&C design advisory group.

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MA DipArch (Cantab) DipTP RIBA MRTPI FRSA ACArch

Brian continues to advance the development of the ACA as well as providing sage planning advice as a co-chair of the ACA Planning Action Group. Brian is also the ACA’s Press Advisor and is principal of architects and planning consultants BWCP. He served five years as chairman of the National Planning Forum and has chaired since 1990 the London Planning & Development Forum. He is joint publishing editor of Planning in London magazine. He has written for most of the professional journals and has received four commendations as Architectural Journalist of the Year for articles in Building, AJ and the RIBAJ and is planning correspondent for the AJ. He has tutored at PCL and Cambridge and lectured at the AA, PNL and Welsh schools of architecture as. He is a past-master of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects. He enjoys dressage, tennis, Siberian huskies, painting, throwing (pots) and growing fruit, lavender and vines in Cataluyna where he has a second studio.

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BA (Hons) Dip Arch RIBA 

Phil established WGP Architects some 20 years ago and has since accrued a dynamic portfolio of completed projects and a vibrant studio of designers in west London, both testimony to his dedication and enthusiasm. He has been responsible for design development, co-ordination, and contract administration, for a wide range of alternative residential, leisure, performing arts, community and hospitality buildings, and interiors. Phil supervises the practice’s designs from conception through to detail and in his continual efforts to deliver efficiencies has acquired particular expertise in using off-site and prefabricated technologies.

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DipArch GradDipAA MSc HonDrDesign RIBA FRSA ACArch

John is an award winning Architect with over thirty years’ experience running his own practice. He has won numerous awards for design including The Sunday Times British Homes Awards’ Architect of the Year in 2008, 2014 and 2016. His other passions lie in being an exemplar employer, looking after the profession and supporting the future generation of Architects. His practice won the Architects’ Journal Employer of the Year in 2017, it was ranked number 1 in the Building Magazine Good Employer Guide in 2014, 2015 and 2017, and has been on The Sunday Times Best Small Companies to Work For list eight times, most recently in 27th place in 2018. John is a nationally elected member of the RIBA Council and Honorary Treasurer of the RIBA, a Trustee of the Architects Benevolent Society and a Member of their Executive Committee. John has been a Visiting Fellow at Oxford Brookes University since 2000, who awarded him Honorary Doctor of Design in 2017, and is President of The Doric Club, the alumni association for architectural students. He is an external examiner at The Bartlett and London Metropolitan University and has lectured at Lincoln, Nottingham, Oxford Brookes, Sheffield and London Bartlett, Metropolitan and Westminster Universities.

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DiplArchPoly RIBA ACArch

BA (Hons) DipArchM.St (Cantab) ACArch, RSA

Academically, Jonathan has studied at the universities of Bristol, Cambridge & Aachen, qualifying in both Architecture and Interdisciplinary Design, supported by studies in urban and regional planning issues, ongoing translation & journalism following field trips in Europe & French-speaking West Africa and activities with European & United Nations groups. These interests set sustainability, environmental awareness and economic viability at the heart of any long-term investment policy. In professional practice, Jonathan focusses on strategic concepts being interpreted into detail designs: an attitude which he particularly attributes to four years working for John Partridge CBE ACArch at Howell Killick Partridge & Amis. He has experience of project management & contract procurement required by a wide range of client sectors: both public & private sector, both commercial & residential and in sports, education, ecclesiastical & charitable organisations to achieve viable developments at strategic & practical levels. The Practice reputation has attracted a core group of clients for strategic concept and feasibility option studies as well as for long-term advisory appointments. Jonathan has been in private practice since 1987 and is, since 2003, Cathedral Architect for St George’s Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral Southwark, Honorary Estates Advisor to the Trustees for The Friars, Aylesford since 2012 and has, since 1992, been a business delegate to the strategic partnerships in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

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AADipl ACArh DipTP DipEnv&Dev (open) MRTPI and ACArch

Andy trained at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in the late 1960s and ran his own practice in West London from1973 to1979, when with Michael Manser he founded what is now The Manser Practice, working in Hammersmith. He secured a Town Planning degree from the University of the West of England by Distance Learning in 1997 and won the Grimley Prize for a paper on Conservation Areas in 1995. He was elected as a full ACA Council member in 1992, was President of the ACA from 2001- 2003 and is now Chairman of the ACA Planning Action Group. He represents the ACA on the National Planning Forum and London Planning and Development Forum, and was part of the Householder Development Consents Review group for the ODPM (now DCLG), which reported at length on proposals to re-write the permitted development rules (subsequently abandoned). Andy now works from home in Dorset, mainly as a consultant Town Planner, dealing with planning applications and appeals. He specialises in changes of use and smaller projects often involving permitted development.