Practice

George is an architect with more than 20 years’ experience, from large residential blocks to one-off eco houses, gained in some of London’s busier practices. Before joining Millar Howard Workshop he spent seven years with a small, cutting-edge contractor delivering bespoke, digitally manufactured timber frame houses. He knows how a design actually gets built, and he brings that knowledge to every project.

With a Master’s in Environmental Design and Engineering, George combines technical rigour with a real appetite for sustainable design. He leads the team and runs the practice day to day, and sits on the committee of RIBA Gloucestershire.

Phil is an architect and regenerative development practitioner. Raised outdoors on a farm in Zimbabwe, he knows what rural life asks of people, and rural diversification runs through his work alongside community-led and private projects. He brings systems thinking to design so that projects help places, communities and ecosystems realise their own potential rather than simply answering the brief. That often starts before there is a brief, with landowners, organisations and communities, and carries through to the finished building. When people remember they are participants in a place rather than observers of it, what follows isn’t just sustainability but vitality: the capacity of a place to keep evolving.

Phil studied at Nottingham and Westminster, qualified at Kingston, and has worked for design-led practices including Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A) in London and Office of McFarlane Biggar in Vancouver. He has served on the Gloucestershire Design Review Panel and led the treehouse project at Elmore, where careful detailing shapes how people experience the place.

Rachel studied at the University of Bath and has been part of Millar Howard Workshop for ten years. In that time she has become one of the practice’s most dependable project leaders, steering schemes calmly and clearly from first sketch to completion. Clients and consultants value her organisation and her leadership.

Rachel also looks after the practice’s website and marketing, so the way we present our work is as considered as the work itself.

Karina studied Sustainable Architecture at the Centre for Alternative Technology, where she still tutors and volunteers from time to time, and is now undertaking her Part 3 at UWE Bristol. Her passion for low-impact design and natural materials brings a practical eye to carbon assessment, helping us understand and reduce the footprint of what we design.

A deep love of crafted architecture and making led her to complete a Level 1 in Carpentry and Joinery. She plans to keep learning the trade alongside her work, deepening her own understanding of how buildings come together and bringing that knowledge back into our projects.

Jack has a considered approach to design and uses hand-drawn sketches and visualisations to communicate ideas clearly to clients. He studied for his Part 1 at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

Before joining us, Jack worked at Timothy Tasker Architects on residential, educational and commercial projects. These included a hemp-based conference building for a local regenerative farming charity. His experience gave him a strong grounding in sustainable construction and natural materials.

Marianne is our finance & office manager and the person who keeps Millar Howard Workshop running smoothly. She manages the practice day to day and is responsible for its finances and quality management. Her MBA from the University of the West of England shows in how she runs things.

With an excellent eye for detail, Marianne makes sure everything behind the scenes is right, so that the design team can focus on doing their best work with confidence.

Tom is a co-founder of Millar Howard Workshop and loves both designing and making. He has been an architect for nearly two decades, has worked and studied around the world, and has completed an ambitious self-build for his own family. He is passionate about making that possible for others, and has been a regular contributor to the Right to Build Task Force Masterclasses.

Through LIVEDIN, Tom has built deep expertise in local planning policy and in finding routes to excellent design in difficult planning contexts. Having worked in and around Stroud for over 20 years, he knows the landscape and heritage that surround so many of our projects.

Tomas is an architect and co-founder of Millar Howard Workshop, with a particular passion for what new technology can do for design. He looks for hidden or overlooked data in architecture and improves how information flows, so that architects connect better with everyone downstream, from builders to the people who will live in the buildings.

Alongside Tom, Tomas helps run our sister company LIVEDIN day to day. His expertise in AI and digital tools brings fresh thinking to our design process and leads to more responsive design. He has also undertaken the RIBA conservation training, which keeps that innovation grounded in respect for historic buildings.