Harriet
Bourne
Senior Director
After a career in fashion, Harriet Bourne studied landscape architecture and worked in urban design and landscape architecture practices before setting up BBUK. Since the inception of the practice Harriet has run projects ranging in size from large scale urban design and landscape strategy and master planning projects through to detailed design and implementation of a range of schemes both in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Jenia
Kalugina
Director
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Jenia has a distinction from Moscow Academic College and was awarded a first-class degree from BCUC in Spatial Design. She has worked for BBUK since 2003 running projects in UK and abroad from initial sketch ideas through to detail design and inspecting works on site.
Martyna Berek
Associate Landscape Architect
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Having previously worked in contracts and administration, Martyna Berek changed her career and studied landscape design, being awarded a first-class degree at BCUC in summer 2005. She worked part-time at BBUK for the last 2 years of her studies and was offered a full-time position in February 2005 and has worked for the practice on an off since then. Martyna is a talented designer with excellent plant knowledge.
Andrew
Batt
Associate Practice Manager
Andrew Batt joined BBUK in 2021, after gaining extensive experience as a Practice Manager at a number of notable Architectural practices including Jamie Fobert Architects, De Matos Ryan, Delvendahl Martin, Benedetti Architects and Stanton Williams. In his role as Practice Manager, Andrew oversees finance, business development and the day-to-day running of the practice. He is also responsible for BBUK’s communications, publicity and marketing.
Michele
Beraldo
Senior Landscape Architect
After qualifying from University of Genoa Michele worked initially in his native Italy for two years. Following this he worked for a large practice in the Netherlands. Since joining BBUK Michele has been a key member of the team running a number of projects at various scales across the UK.
Humza
Hamid
Senior Landscape Architect
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Humza studied architecture at Cambridge and completed his academic studies with an MA in architecture at Royal College of Art. Between the two he worked in Karachi for Arcop Associates one of Pakistan’s largest design led architectural firms. At the RCA Humza realised his interests primarily lay in landscape and he now brings his rich and varied experience to BBUK where he will work to shape the spaces between buildings.
Annabelle
Silver-Setchfield
Senior Landscape Architect
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​Annabelle joins us again after finishing her Masters in Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh 2019. Annabelle has begun to gather experience in a broad range of areas and since starting she has worked on the design of a competition entry as well as illustrative drawings and preparing tender packages.
Abbie Johnson
Landscape Architect
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Abbie studied at Sheffield University completing her MA in 2019. During her year out she worked at James Blake Associates in Suffolk, working primarily on residential schemes. In her final year at Sheffield Abbie’s projects focussed on landscapes that can help unify communities. Since starting at BBUK Abbie has worked on detail design and planning packages for a variety of projects.
Enrique
Cavelier
Landscape Architect
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Enrique recently graduated with distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2023), with a masters in landscape architecture, Prior to this he completed an MA in Situated Practice at the Bartlett (2021), and a BA in Architecture from the University of Virginia (2014).
Enrique has also worked at different architecture and landscape practices like Hart Howerton in New York and El Equipo Mazzanti in Bogotá. Enrique is also passionate about education and has returned to teach at his former Universities Harvard and Virginia as well as a stint at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota.
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Since joining BBUK he has been working on residential projects in York.
KhrystynaMukha
Landscape Architect
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Khrystyna studied Architecture and Urban Planning in her native Ukraine at the Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, completing her masters in 2018. During her studies she worked as a junior architect at the Architecture Bureau in Kharkiv, and as an architect and project co-ordinator after completing her masters. During her time at the Architecture Bureau she was a key team member on the Sarzhin Yar Park project which was nominated for the Architizer A+Awards and the Architecture MasterPrize in 2022. This project solidified her interest in Landscape and when the war started following the full scale invasion of Ukraine she relocated to London, joining BBUK late in 2022. Before leaving Ukraine Khrystyna worked as a tutor and coordinator of technical modules at the Private University the Kharkiv School of Architecture.
Maria Navarro
OFFICE ASSISTANT
After graduating with a BSc from the University of Sheffield in 2020 Christopher joined the Leeds based practice Urban Wilderness, where he gained experience at multiple scales on projects for the NHS and National Trust and on a range of housing and education projects.
After working at the practice for two year’s Christopher began his MA in Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield, where he further developed his skills in visioning and masterplanning.
Since starting at BBUK Christopher has been working on two large scale residential projects in Guildford and St Albans and on a mixed use office development in Mayfair.
Kartik
Shekhar
Assistant Landscape Architect / BIM Technician
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Khushboo is interning at BBUK as she continues her MA in Landscape Urbanism at the AA Association of Architecture. In 2022 she completed a Masters in Landscape architecture at the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology in India.
Before this Khushboo took a year out to work in practice at the Andblack Design Studio in Ahmedabad where she was a lead architect on five key projects. This period gave her solid experience handling the whole design and construction process. Khushboo also has a BA in Architecture from Navrachna University in Gujarat.
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Since joining BBUK Kartik has been working on two large commercial schemes.
Junwei
Li
Graduate Landscape Architect
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Khushboo is interning at BBUK as she continues her MA in Landscape Urbanism at the AA Association of Architecture. In 2022 she completed a Masters in Landscape architecture at the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology in India.
Before this Khushboo took a year out to work in practice at the Andblack Design Studio in Ahmedabad where she was a lead architect on five key projects. This period gave her solid experience handling the whole design and construction process. Khushboo also has a BA in Architecture from Navrachna University in Gujarat.
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Since joining BBUK Junwei has been working on a redesign of a community playground in Southwark