Richard Reid and Associates, based in Sevenoaks, Kent, work at a varierty of scales from the corner shop, small apartment or house extension to the design of urban housing or museum buildings, a town hall or city planning. We are as concerned about the urban design of streets, squares and parks as we are about a small corner in the city or cottage in the countryside. For us the overriding issue is about place making, whether you're working on hardware stores or concert halls.

The practice were masterplanners for the 60 hectare district of Kleinzschocher, Leipzig, Germany, for the City of Leipzig (1995) and are currently masterplanners and architects for The Lower Mill Estate, a development of 575 holiday houses and ancillary accommodation set amongst a landscape of lakes near Cirencester. The practice is also working on the masterplan of an 80 hectare site on the edge of Bologna, Italy, with Piero Sartogo of Sartogo Architetti Associati, Richard Meier and Partners and Studio Arco, for the City of Bologna and the University of Bologna.The work of the practice has been included in numerous exhibitions at the Royal Academy, The Heinz Gallery and RIBA London and two of the studio projects were included in the Royal Academy touring exhibition of Contemporary British Architecture to the USA during 1994/95. The practice also sees itself as a 'teaching practice' offering RIBA training for Part I and Part II architecture students.

The principal architectural designers in the practice are Richard Reid, Robert Dowling and Gareth Wilkins. Richard Reid, a member of the RIBA, studied architecture at the Northern Polytechnic and later at the Accademia Britannica, Rome as a Rome Scholar in Architecture. He was both a teacher and external examiner at numerous architectural schools in the UK, Europe and the USA before setting up in practice.

Robert Dowling who studied architecture at Cambridge is a member of the RIBA. He has worked on numerous private house projects as well as several museum and industrial projects and was architect in charge of the above ground buildings for the Jubilee Line at Canada Water.

Gareth Wilkins studied at the University of Bath. For a number of years he worked on numerous projects for James Stirling and Michael Wilford and Associates, including the Singapore Arts centre. He has extensive experience in large cultural projects, master planning proposals and mixed-use development projects.