Barbara Clark  

Barbara is an ARB-registered Architect with over 15 years' experience delivering complex, high-value projects across healthcare, heritage, and commercial sectors, while previously working at Stirling Prize-winning practices.

She brings a diverse range of expertise, with a particular focus on dense urban and heritage-led environments. At Purcell, she is part of the Palace of Westminster team, leading on stakeholder engagement.

Barbara is passionate about the intersection of high-quality design, heritage, and the people who use buildings, and is drawn to large-scale, technically complex projects within a dense urban fabric. She enjoys building open, collaborative relationships with clients and consultant teams to keep user needs at the centre of every design decision, an approach shaped by leading extensive user-group consultation on major healthcare projects earlier in her career.

Barbara has extensive experience on facade design across major mixed-use and residential schemes for clients including Argent and British Land, as well as on the reuse of a Denys Lasdun-designed building, an early grounding in adaptive reuse that continues to inform her approach to heritage today. She has led educational workshops for primary schools through Open City’s Young City Makers programme and continues to support work experience opportunities for young people. Outside practice, she’s a keen cyclist and kickboxer, including long-distance charity rides across Vietnam, Taiwan, and Europe.