Joe Morris is an architect spearheading Morris+Company across two studios, one in the creative district of London’s Shoreditch, the other in Copenhagen. In a career spanning 25 years of professional practice which has achieved widespread international recognition, Joe has increasingly advocated a sense of urgency for fair and transparent practice, inclusivity and equality, through open dialogue and critical debate, whilst encouraging the broader company to take ownership of projects and develop their own careers and interests.

 

Morris+Company is a growing studio, recently included on the AJ100 definitive record of the UK’s largest architecture practices, and its direction and governance is a shared endeavour across the director team and beyond. Accordingly, each member plays a vital part in driving the practice to achieve exemplar service and output. Joe’s focus is directed towards the Workplace Sector (spearheading the #Office+ Programme (can we hyper link this)), Majors (providing strategic oversight on all major projects) and International (working collaboratively with our Danish Team to build our sister studio in Copenhagen, as well build on relationships in Munich, Berlin, Paris, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Oslo).

 

Joe has represented the practice on a global platform, lecturing on the work of the studio in many leading UK universities, as well as in Barcelona, Bilbao, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Liege and Romania. He has taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, the Universidad de Navvara in Pamplona and La Salle School of Architecture in Barcelona and has been a visiting examiner at Plymouth and Oxford Brookes universities. Joe is a founding participator in Londonon a global self initiated research programme exploring a world view on cities across Europe, and has also contributed to a number of local authority design review panels, including Lewisham, Brent, Hackney and currently, Southwark.

 

Joe believes in the potential for a more compassionate, sustainable global economy and seeks to raise awareness of interdependent global issues whilst following a strict vegan philosophical attitude to life. Beyond practice, Joe is collaboratively exploring the confluence of diet, agriculture, architecture and creative output through www.supernature-x-site.com, a project housed in a nineteenth century terraced building in Hackney, East London. SITE is actively engaged in circular economics, sustainable cooking and associated ethical practices of production, supply and waste management.”