SJW Architects
SJW Architects is a design-led architectural practice based in London and Hathersage in the Peak District. We offer architectural services across the public and private realms, in the fields of residential, mixed-use, masterplanning, landscaping, non-profit developmental work overseas, as well as museums and galleries.
Susi Wellings – Director
Susi Wellings is an Architect with 15 years’ post qualification experience, primarily in the Museum and Gallery sector. Prior to the founding of SJW Architects Susi was an Associate at Rogers, Stirk, Harbour & Partners (formerly Richard Rogers Architects) where she worked for eight years on the World Exhibitions and Conservation Centre at the British Museum. Susi also spent three years with multiple Sterling Prize winners Wilkinson Eyre Architects, where she was Project Architect on a new Riverside Development for the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. In between these two large practices Susi spent two years with Architecture for Humanity, as Country Director & Architect in Sri Lanka, carrying out post-tsunami reconstruction projects. Her work there saw her shortlisted for Aga Khan Awards 2010 session and winner of the Observer Ethical Awards for ‘Innovation of the Year’ 2006.
Susi gained her Degree, Diploma and Masters qualifications at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, receiving distinctions for both her design portfolio and technical submission, as well as winning the Sir Andrew Taylor Prize for best Technical Dissertation.
Susi worked in 2015 as a Consultant Architect for Jo Cowen Architects as Project Architect for three high-end private residential refurbishment projects in West London. Susi is also involved with the design and implementation of a charity project in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as teaching Technology to Master Students at the University of Kent.
Christopher Braddock – Associate
15 April 1966 - 21 February 2023
It was an honour and a joy having you at SJW Architects.
HAPPY THE MAN
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul or rain or shine
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
John Dryden
Dan Bow – Architect
After graduating in Architecture from the University of Edinburgh, Dan was awarded the Andrew Grant Postgraduate Scholarship to study a masters course, specialising in craft and digital material design. He has since worked in architecture and design roles in Edinburgh, Sheffield and London.
Dan is also a keen photographer and uses his compositional skills to create 3D models and architectural visualisations.
Camilla Westergaard - Interior Architecture
Camilla grew up with a ceramics studio in her house and has continued to surrounded herself with craft and design since. After gaining a first-class degree in Art History from UCL, she worked as a gallery curator before establishing her own homewares business specialising in illustrated ceramics and textiles, stocked in Liberty’s of London.
Her interiors focus on honest materials, considered colour combinations and texture. Detail and craftsmanship are central to her designs.
