Robin Nicholson

Cullinan Studio Fellow

CBE, RIBA, Hon FIStructE, Hon FCIBSE, FRSA

Robin uses his experience as an architect with 40+ years at Cullinan Studio to rethink how we use buildings, and help transform our industry; into one where the buildings and places we make have ‘long life, loose fit and low energy’ for the benefit of the users, the clients and the wider world.

The climate and biodiversity emergency have motivated him as a Vice-President of the RIBA, a Chairman of the Construction Industry Council, a CABE Commissioner, and as a NHBC Board member. He has led and contributed to numerous built environment advisory boards and task forces, including Chair of the DCSF Zero Carbon (Schools) Task Force, and a founding board member of the Movement for Innovation (m4i).

Robin is currently convenor of the multi-disciplinary Edge Thinktank, which he co-founded in 1996, and chair of the Cambridgeshire Quality Panel.

Robin lectures internationally on our work, climate and industry change. He was awarded a CBE for services to architecture in 1999, became an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham in 2013, and received an Honorary Doctorate at UWE in 2022.