Carl Vann

Partner

Expert panel member

Carl Vann is a main board partner and leads one of Pollard Thomas Edwards’ design studios, taking projects from concept to completion.

With more than 20 years’ experience, Carl’s current projects are operating at the forefront of residential design innovation, including prefabricated modular homes, large scale custom-build communities and regeneration projects imaginatively integrating homes alongside workplaces, leisure, education and retail. Carl uses extensive engagement alongside classic design thinking to respond to real needs, and produce striking, award-winning architecture and townscapes.

Carl is a member of the New London Architecture Expert Panel on Housing, the Essex Design Review Panel, design advisor to the Royal Borough of Greenwich and visiting lecturer at The Bartlett, London Metropolitan and London Southbank universities.

NLA Expert Panel member for the Housing programme #NLAHousing

Latest contributions

11 March 2024

Meet the expert - Carl Vann

David Taylor meets Pollard Thomas Edwards partner Carl Vann to discuss the findings of the Expert Panel on housing and some potential ways forward for the challenged sector.

Housing

25 October 2023

Reform to perform

Carl Vann, Partner at Pollard Thomas Edwards shares his viewpoint from our 'Housing Londoners' report, exploring innovation as the key to solving the capital's housing crisis.

Housing

30 May 2023

People, Place, Planet

The third meeting of the Housing Expert Panel was held at Montegu Evans offices on the twelfth storey of 70 St Mary Axe, Carl Vann of Pollard Thomas Edwards reports.

Expert panel member