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PRACTICE PROFILE vPPR Architects


ADF’s Kim Neville profi les a rare female-led UK architecture practice, exploring vPPR’s foundations, ethos, and focus on supporting users’ creativity in its designs


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stablished in 2009, vPPR is a female-led multi-national architectural practice, with offi ces in London, Liverpool and Hamburg. Tatiana von Preussen (above left), founded vPPR with Catherine Pease (above, centre) and Jessica Reynolds (above right), the trio meeting in their fi rst year of study at Cambridge. In what is still a largely male-dominated profession – 2023 research by the ARB found that 31% of architects were female – it’s refreshing to see a practice led by women. Great-granddaughter of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany,


Tatiana von Preussen studied architecture at Columbia University as well as Cambridge. In New York, she worked for landscape architects James Corner Field Operations on the High Line project.


Von Preussen has also lectured at US and UK universities. Catherine Pease works in both the London and Hamburg offi ces, heading up the German studio. Catherine spent her childhood in France, and studied at the Architectural Association after Cambridge, before like Tatiana moving to New York to work, including a stint at SOM.


Jessica Reynolds studied at Princeton University, after teaching at Columbia University, specialising in housing design. She is a co-founder of Architecture Exchange, which is a “platform to stimulate debate between architecture and philosophy.” The three founders of vPPR established their practice with an ethos of designing spaces that “inspire creativity by prioritising


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