Ed is a hands-on / on-site architect / regenerative systems designer. Working with locals trades and crafts people to make cost effective robust sustainable solutions that put, working holistically, people and planetary health at the center of every decision. Critically valuing and working with respect to the users and makers of these spaces, facilitating contemporary, grassroots and vernacular architecture.

In 2014 he founded SAWA with Enock Ruziga in Rwanda whilst working together on the 'a house for a victim' project, reconciliaton post Genocide.

He received the ‘RIBA North West London Society Award’ at the CASS Design School for this project in 2015, nominated as the best live and community engaged project. And the ‘RIBAJ Rising Star Cohort Award 2016’ for ‘We Yone School’ in the Ebola-affected region of Freetown, Sierra Leone, enabling 180 of the most vulnerable children in the community to attend primary school.
From 2017 to 2020, SAWA was leading teams of volunteers, on charitable projects utilising local materials and labour and regenerative permaculture approach in creation of community spaces such as schools, orphanages, farms, small holdings, retreat spaces, in Senegal, India, Bulgaria, Cambodia and Thailand. ‘The Agri Tech Centre, Cambodia’ won the AJ100 Best Collaboration of the Year Award with Squire and Partners, with the judges describing it as ‘an exceptional example of architectural practices doing charitable work in the developing world’.
Based from 2022 in the UK, Ed is teaching permaculture design and designing and building structures for private home owners and farmers. Specializing in ecological retrofits, extensions, new homes, workshops, round houses, tiny homes, compost loos, community gardens and natural buildings from his homestead in mid Wales.

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