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Simon Barker and Jaimie Shorten are Chartered Architects working across a wide range of sectors, including housing, schools, commercial projects and the arts. We enjoy this diversity and the careful engagement needed to successfully respond to the wide range of opportunities brought to us by our clients.
Professional architectural practice involves a range of necessary activities that are interdependent: from examining outline alternatives and feasibility, to design, working with models and prototypes, through to the control of the building process on site, costs and timing.
We believe that good architecture is made through a thoroughly-formulated brief developed in conversation with clients and users. The relationship of the building to its surroundings, and well-ordered construction are also essential; these are more important than working in a predefined style or technology.
We believe that to design and build in a sustainable manner is an integral part of the making of architecture and not an optional extra or choice.

For further information about the partners, see Simon Barker and Jaimie Shorten.

To contact Barker Shorten Architects, please call Simon Barker on 01323 642673 or Jaimie Shorten on 020 7729 1077.

Alternatively, please email us for further information.

Competitions, Publications and Awards

2005 Four Shores Project book, print and film
2003 Seagulls Nursery School competitiion, Margate: First Place
‘Accommodating Change’ exhibition and book: Architecture Foundation
2001 Leysdown Community Centre competition - First Place
1996 Europan 4 Competition, Glasgow Priesthill Site - First Place
1996 Lewes District Council Design Awards - Best New Building 1993-96
1993 Burgess Park Competition, Southwark - Second Place
1992 Stoke Newington Mausoleum Competition - Second Place
1983 AD ‘British Architecture Awards’ - Student Award
Belsize Wood Competition - Commendation

Our work has been published in Architectural Design, Architects Journal and Building Design.