Many architects boast about delivering a project on a tight budget and you find out that ‘tight’ means an eye-watering figure that most normal humans will never see in their lives. But when architect Benni Allan claims to have worked on a budget, boy, he means it. His latest project – clad his former school in southern Spain with waves of colourful homemade tiles – was delivered for an incredible £1,000.
This drive for affordability was partly out of necessity, and partly due to Benni’s interested in socially engaged, open-ended architecture. Studying at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture, the emerging talent was dubbed a ‘One to Watch’ by the British Design Council in 2015 and scooped up a RIBA Rising Stars Award in 2017. He’s gone on to teach at the University of Greenwich and, as a RIBA ambassador, works with schools in Hackney to broaden awareness of what architects do and how to become one.
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