Benjamin Machin directs an architecture studio in east London, working across the United Kingdom and occasionally abroad. The studio finds beauty everywhere and likes making non-original, generous buildings.

The studio is an RIBA Chartered Practice and is small by design, with Benjamin leading the design and management of each project. The practice is a signatory of both Architects Declare and the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge. Alongside directing the studio, Benjamin is actively engaged as a visiting critic at various schools of architecture across the United Kingdom and has led a teaching studio at Loughborough University since 2021.

Design starts by looking carefully at what is already there: the street, the ground, traces of use. These ordinary things carry meaning, and we take them seriously. We seek out what excites — buildings, objects or stories that can make this ordinariness feel newly alive. 


Architect’s Registration Board
Registration no. 087738G

RIBA Chartered Practice
Practice no. 20043511

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Registered in England and Wales No.13535889​


Photography by Freddie Marriage