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Jonas Lencer
He/himDirector
DIPL ING ARCH, AK, ARB, RIBA
Jonas Lencer was made Director in 2015 following a 15-year progression from architectural intern through to Studio Director. His role within dRMM has consistently been tied to the studio’s material research and development, with a particular focus on material innovation via the process of making and – increasingly – through the strength of digital design.

Together with his fellow directors, Jonas champions dRMM’s international strategy, marrying his passion for process-driven architecture with an ambition to grow dRMM’s portfolio across the globe. Jonas believes passionately in the power of process-driven architecture as an agent for narrowing the gap between design and manufacture. He is particularly interested in the potential of prefabricated materials, materials with a propensity for modularity, and materials that promote circularity. His design with fellow director Alex de Rijke for the 2013 London Design Festival project, Endless Stair, celebrated engineered timber and modular design. The installation was conceived as a flexible configuration of identical components designed to to adapt to different contexts, including its feature in the 2014 Milan Salone del Mobile event as Scale Infinite. Endless Stair also saw the collaboration with Arup engineers to develop the first hardwood CLT material, which was later used in dRMM’s award-winning design for a Maggie’s centre in Oldham. In 2016, Jonas brought his long-standing timber expertise to the Malaysian Wood Awards as a member on its judging panel.
Jonas brings his material and making expertise to the wider industry discourse in the form of consistent public speaking, writing and panel expertise – he was invited to sit on the London Borough of Harringay’s Design Review Panel in 2017. He has written and lectured on the subject of the ‘Architecture of Circumstance’, which outlines his proposition for a design future reliant on resource availability, flexibility, and radical logic as opposed to predisposed stylistic solutions. As such, Jonas’ focus as Director lies with the studio’s overarching architectural strategy and the strengthening of its process-driven design ethos.
Jonas is vocal in his support of emerging practitioners as ambassadors for sustainable change within the industry. He has written about the importance of listening to young voices within the profession – specifically the role of environmental architect-activists – and is a mentor to dRMM’s internal Sustainability Focus group. Jonas is keenly invested in discourse as a tool for learning within practice. Aside from regular guest lecturing, he became an assessor for RIBA Part III at the University of Brighton in 2017.
Before joining dRMM he worked alongside Professor Mirko Baum at the Institute for Structural Architecture, RWTH-Aachen, as well as in Cologne and Moscow as an assistant to the artist Professor Igor Sacharow-Ross. Jonas moved to the UK in 2004 and was born and educated in Germany.
People

Alex de Rijke
Director
Philip Marsh
Director
Sadie Morgan
She/herDirector

Jonas Lencer
He/himDirector

Judith Stichtenoth
She/herDirector

Saskia Lencer
She/herDirector

Tamsin Pearce
She/herFinance Director

Steven Wallis
He/himAssociate Director

Alexis Hewitson
She/herExecutive Assistant to Sadie Morgan

Andres Hernandez
He/himSenior Project Lead

Andy Matthews
Project Architect
Auzar Tehrani
She/herSenior Architectural Designer

Benedetta Montaguti
She/herArchitect

Catherine Clarke
She/herAssociate, Studio Manager

Ceren Mihlar
She/herArchitectural Designer

Chris Bennett
He/himArch Assistant

Chris Cornelissen
He/himSenior Architect

David Byrne
He/himArch Assistant

Denice Mann-Toyinbo
She/herArchitect

Eva Neumann
She/HerArchitect

Farid Karim
He/himArch Assistant

Finbar Charleson
He/himArchitect

Fin Orme
He/himArch Assistant

Findlay McFarlane
He/himArchitect

Gina Kouvara
She/herStudio Assistant

Helen Buchholz
She/herArchitect

Joe Morris
Senior Arch Assistant
Kat Scott
She/herAssociate, Regenerative Design Manager

Lily Teeling
She/herStudio Assistant

Lorenz Krauth
Architect
Mark Laverty
He/himArch Assistant

Mathilde Schaal
She/herArchitectural Designer

Michael Baldwin
He/himSenior Arch Assistant

Myah Phelan
They/themArch Assistant

Nazli Usta
She/herSenior Associate

Olivia Chan
She/herArch Assistant

Paris Gazzola
She/herArch Assistant

Regina Kertapati
She/herAssociate

Sam Skogstad
He/himSenior Arch Assistant

Tara Ryan
She/herSenior Associate, Head of Marketing and BD

Tonia Tkachenko
She/herSenior Associate

Victoria Hale
She/herSenior Associate

Thomas Smith
He/himArchitectural Assistant

Will Howard
He/himSenior Associate

William Marshall
He/himSenior Architectural Designer

Zafir Ameen
He/himArch Assistant