NIMTIM - Nimi Attanayake + Tim O'Callaghan 14/11/2024

"Our profession is (finally/ belatedly) beginning to address and adapt to the climate crisis and the profound changes in the way we design that it demands. We are becoming familiar with new technologies and new ways of measuring how a building performs. We are learning new ways of working and collaborating with new disciplines. More importantly, we are having to almost completely reassess how we evaluate and judge the work we and others create".
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Nimi is director and co-founder of nimtim architects, starting the practice in 2014 alongside Tim. Nimi brings energy, positivity, and sense of adventure to everything she does. Nimi is a qualified garden and landscape designer and leads the nimtim landscapes department. A UK qualified architect since 2008, she has worked for some of London’s most highly regarded practices including Penoyre & Prasad and Hawkins/ Brown where she was a project architect for Corby Cube and other significant developments such as Metropolitan Wharf in Wapping.
Tim is director and co-founder of nimtim architects, starting the practice in 2014 alongside Nim. His sensitive, playful, and pragmatic approach to architecture has helped shape the practice and the work it has produced. A UK qualified architect since 2008; Tim has worked at OMA in Rotterdam and David Chipperfield architects in London. Prior to setting up nimtim architects in 2014, Tim was senior architect at RCKa where he was project runner for the RIBA award-winning TNG Youth Centre in Lewisham.
Tim spent a number of years teaching and lecturing at UK architecture schools and continues to contribute to the education of future architects through school workshops, mentoring and programmes that support those from under-represented groups to enter the profession. He uses his voice through lectures, articles, and self-published essays to advocate for better pay, better representation and a more empowered, ethical profession. Nimi and Tim are both University of Westminster