Studio Ben Allen is a multidisciplinary design practice. We undertake a wide range of projects at the intersection of architecture, design and art. Each of our projects has at its core an open collaborative dialogue between participants and disciplines, from concept to production, in order to create unique and engaging spatial sequences.
Ben allen
Studio Ben Allen was founded in 2014 by architect Ben Allen and is built on over 15 years experience collaborating with designers, architects, artists and other creative disciplines. Having studied architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Ben worked for Fletcher Priest Architects and Jonathan Tuckey Design before moving to Berlin. There he worked at Studio Olafur Eliasson for almost a decade, on projects including Harpa, the Icelandic National Concert Hall, Reykjavik, which won the Mies van der Rohe European Union architecture prize in 2013-14, Your Rainbow Panorama at the Aros Museum, Aarhus. From 2009 he co-founded and collaborated with the collective KWY before relocating to London and founding Studio Ben Allen. Ben has also acted as a studio tutor at Oxford Brookes University and been a guest lecturer and critic at The Mackintosh School of Architecture, the Universität der Künste Berlin, Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art.
Marco Nicastro
Marco Nicastro is a designer and project lead at Studio Ben Allen. With a background in Industrial and Graphic Design, Marco carried out his architecture studies at Politecnico di Torino, London Metropolitan University, AHO (Oslo) and KTH in Stockholm, where he obtained his MSc in Architecture in 2020. Before joining the practice in 2017, he did his post-Bachelors working experience at White Arkitekter and at Holscher Nordberg Architecture & Planning in Copenhagen, where he worked on a number of residential projects and competitions.
Collaborators
James Palmer
Braydan Barrett
Oliver Williams
Carlos Filipe Pinto
Daniel Kownacki
Dylan Radcliffe-Brown
Karimah Hassan
Marco Nicastro
Chris Waters
Dominik Scigala
Stefania Barbera
Omar Ghazal
Massine Yallaoui
Tom Richardson
Arthur Wong
Participate
We are not actively looking for new people to join our team but we are always keen to hear from creative people who share our ambitions. If are interested to work with us, please email your statement of interest to the address below, together with your CV and examples of your work.
Studio Ben Allen is an RIBA Chartered Practice [Registration No. 20015901]