Kevin is an architect with 30 years' experience and has been involved in a raft of award-winning buildings and projects. Trained at the Newcastle University School of Architecture he went on to become a practitioner and tutor and has taught students for the past 20 years. Kevin has worked on a diverse range of projects from designing the Crypt for the Bishop of Sheffield through to work on the footbridge and associated buildings for the World Student Games in Sheffield, and a new visitor centre and experience for the Tower of London. He has twice exhibited work at the prestigious Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Kevin is the visionary behind a number of iconic buildings including: The Place, Sunderland; House on the Lake, a PPS7 Development; and The Snake House, a house televised on Channel 4's Grand Designs.
Kevin's chosen Design Thesis at the University of Newcastle in 1988 was the design of a Cistercian Monastery and Retreat on Coquet Island some 20 miles to the south of Lindisfarne, an island with similar characteristics to Lindisfarne in that it too was a religious centre in the Middle Ages. The design was well ahead of its time in producing a sustainable community on the island with: wind power, its own food resources, bio energy and use of local natural materials. The scheme-was exhibited at the RIBA Silver Medal Exhibition in London in 1989. Additionally, the inspiration for the use of the island is acknowledged in the Coquet Island guidebook, "Coquet Island, Northumberland" by Paul G Morrison and Tony Rylance.