Anne Markey BArch MSc(Arch) ARB RIBA

Principal Architect of ASD Projects

Director of ASD Projects at the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design at London Metropolitan University, Anne Markey has twenty years experience as an architect in private practice. Anne is also a director of Phelan Architects, which she founded with her partner Brendan Phelan in 2009.

Prior to setting up ASD Projects in 2004, Anne Markey worked for Studio Daniel Libeskind as the executive architect for the new Graduate Centre at London Metropolitan University.

From 1990 to 2002 Anne was a director of Greenhill Jenner Architects during which period she was responsible for the design and delivery of a number of new build projects in the public sector including a £1.5m Nursing Home for the Frail Elderly, a £15m Community Mental Health Hospital, a new Visitors’ Centre for HMP Holloway, £1m Science Laboratories and Library for Royal Latin School in Buckingham and a new £10m hospice for St. Joseph’s Hospice in East London.

Professor Robert Mull BSc(Hons) AA Dipl. ARB RIBA

Director of ASD Projects

Dean of the faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design at London Metropolitan University since 2000, Robert has worked both as an architect in private practice and as an academic for over twenty years.

Robert Mull has been a visiting Professor of Architecture to a number of institutions including the Technical University of Vienna and the University of Innsbruck. Robert has been appointed as advisor to the Directorate General of Social Exclusion and to the London Arts Board deciding on policy and funding for Art and Architecture Projects within London.

Robert is also Director of the Social Architecture and Regeneration Research unit, director of the ASD Projects Office and a partner in Beevor Mull Architects. He has specialised in work with a clear social purpose often in areas of social deprivation and political change and has pioneered methods of engaging with the urban environment and its stakeholders in direct and accountable ways.

Robert’s built projects and commissions with his practice, Beevor Mull Architects, include new headquarters for a district council in Cambridgeshire, school projects, a number of sheltered housing developments, an NHS Maternity Department and private house commissions.

Bo Tang BA (Hons) DipArch (Dist)

Studio Lecturer and PhD student in the area of Rapid Change and Scarce Resources

Bo Tang studied architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture and London Metropolitan University (UK), from where she graduated with distinction in 2008.

Before joining the ASD Projects Office as RIBA part II architectural assistant she worked for Panter Hudspith Architects in London on a variety of projects including the Oxford Castle Heritage development and free-lanced as a model maker.

During her Postgraduate Diploma of Architecture at London Metropolitan University she coordinated live projects in Agra and Delhi. In her role  Bo has worked closely with her fellow ASD graduate Shamoon Patwari developing infrastructure strategies for a resettlement colony in Delhi (India) funded by The Water Trust. Other live projects in India she and Shamoon have collaborated on at ASD Projects include the establishment of an eye clinic in the stone quarries in New Mumbai with local partners and feasibility studies for a cooperative housing development in a large resettlement colony in Delhi and a new school in Sierra Leone.