page_title: Sadie Morgan
section_title: dRMM Architects
hierarchical_section_title: Sadie Morgan / dRMM Architects
caption_attribution_description: English: Hastings Pier
context_page_description: Sadie Anna Morgan OBE is an English designer. In 1995 she founded dRMM, the RIBA Stirling Prize winning architecture practice, with Alex de Rijke and Philip Marsh.
  Morgan is the chair of the Independent Design Panel for High Speed Two UK, and a board member of both the National Infrastructure Commission UK and the Thames Estuary 2050 Growth Commission. She is one of the Mayor's Design Advocates for the Greater London Authority, a Non-Executive Director of the Major Projects Association, a Professor of Professional Practice at London University of Westminster, and a Fellow of the UK Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
context_section_description: Morgan met Alex de Rijke and Philip Marsh during her studies at Kingston Polytechnic. In response to a competition to design a public education building for the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC), the three designers founded dRMM Architects in 1995. They won the competition and after a series of small-scale projects completed their first building – No. One Centaur Street – in 2003.
  No. One Centaur Street, for which Morgan was design director, received praise from industry critics Jonathan Glancey and Barrie Evans, and won seven awards including the "RIBA London Building of the Year" and the "AJ First Building Award". In 2004 the studio won "Best New Architectural Firm", and in 2005 the "MIPIM Next Generation Award".
  Other dRMM projects have included civic and educational buildings, such as the community-led Hastings Pier (winner of the 2017 RIBA Stirling Prize), Kingsdale School in Southwark, cancer care centre Maggie's Oldham and Clapham Manor Primary School (shortlisted for the 2010 RIBA Stirling Prize).
  The practice has also undertaken residential projects, including individual dwellings such as the Sliding House and Woodblock House, and large-scale housing developments, including Trafalgar Place in Elephant & Castle (shortlisted for the 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize and winner of the Development of the Year Award at the 2016 British Home Awards), Faraday House at Battersea Power Station and Wick Lane in Hackney Wick.
  The practice won the "BD Education Architect of the Year" in 2014, the overall "BD Architect of the Year Award" in 2014 and, most recently, the "BD Housing Architect of the Year" in 2015. As well as winning several National RIBA Awards, the practice has received the UK's top architecture award, the RIBA Stirling Prize, for which it received two further nominations.
  In 2013, Morgan became the fourth female President of the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) and the youngest individual to hold the position. Prior to her Presidency, Morgan was Honorary Treasurer of the AA between 2009 and 2013.
caption: The redeveloped Hastings Pier, winner of the 2017 RIBA Stirling Prize
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