Robert Barker FRIBA is one of the co-founders of Stolon Studio Ltd, an RIBA fellow and a Visiting Professor of the Built Environment at UWE. He has 20 years experience in architecture, planning and landscape design. He has delivered some unusual and highly innovative architecture, such as the BYGO cellular building system, Kaolin Court, the Thames Amphibious House, the prefab Chichester Floating Home, and the flood-resilient property at the BRE park (whilst a director at Baca). He has developed master-planning and infrastructure projects, in London, Essex, Norwich, Littlehampton, Rochester, South-end, Amsterdam, Dordrecht, and Paris. He has been responsible for numerous projects researching zero-carbon, climate adaptation and flood-resilience; and is now leading research into the Economics of Urban Biodiversity. At Stolon he has a growing expertise in complex backland or infill sites and MMC. He continues to innovate in each and every architecture project, evolving and exploring new concepts, different materials and working methods in a constant search to create better living and working environments.
