A promising young architectural assistant, soon to qualify as an architect, Sebastian studied GNVQ and HND at Bradford College. He then achieved a First Class Honours degree in Architecture from the University of Manchester. He currently works for Stride Treglown Chapman Robinson Architects in Manchester.
“I started my four years of study at Bradford College back in 1997. After taking my GCSEs at Bingley Grammar, I came to Bradford College to take a two year GNVQ (Advanced) in Construction and the Built Environment, which led onto a further two years studying an HND in Building Studies. The choice of courses was driven by a continuous passion for design, technology and construction. These courses made me very aware of the professions that could be undertaken within the construction industry. Subjects such as construction law, surveying and structures were of particular interest, the latter became very useful knowledge for my university studies.
After leaving Bradford College I knew that I wanted to be an architect. To achieve this I first took a BA (Hons) degree in Architecture at the University of Manchester. Over the three years I continually developed my design skills and ethos and started to implement them during my year in practice at Chapman Robinson Architects, where in turn I learnt new design techniques. I returned to Manchester University to finish my second part of studies by taking a Bachelor of Architecture (BArch).
During the first year of this course I participated in an Erasmus exchange at the Poletechnika Krakowska in Poland. This opened my eyes to other design and teaching methods that I had not come across back home. The most obvious being the description of form and space through the creation of sculpture. My final year ended with a thesis project based in Barcelona. The scheme was a School of Contemporary Dance, which fuses into the surrounding dense context which is carved by narrow streets. "
