Rab Bennetts OBE
Director
Bennetts Associates Architects
B.Arch (Hons) Dip Arch RIBA FRSA
Born: 1953
Rab studied at Heriot-Watt University /Edinburgh College of Art graduating in 1977. There he won several prizes including the Final Year Architecture Prize, jointly with his partner Denise Bennetts. In 1987 they set up Bennetts Associates.
The firm, based in London and Edinburgh, has been responsible for many recognised projects such as the PowerGen Headquarters, Wessex Water Operations Centre, the Gateway Centre in Loch Lomond, Hampstead Theatre, a 480 room hotel in Westminster and Brighton & Hove Central Library. Notable commissions at present include the £100 million transformation of the RSC’s Stratford home the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the New Street Square development in the City of London and the Humanities building for Oxford University.
To date, the firm has won more than seventy awards, has been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize several times and has won the Architect of the Year award from Building Design and Building magazines in 2005-6.
Rab leads the design direction of Bennetts Associates and is personally involved in many of the firm’s projects. He is also extensively involved in outside bodies and, at present, he is a Board member of the newly-formed UK Green Buildings Council, a member of the construction industry’s 2012 Olympic Task Force and a Director of Sadler’s Wells. He has in the past chaired the RIBA’s Competitions Committee, advised the Government on sustainability policy and sat on Islington Planning Committee as an expert adviser.
He has lectured extensively and has contributed to numerous publications and conferences.
Rab was awarded the OBE for services to architecture in 2003.
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