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Andy Levy is a Design
Contractor & Developer
with a background in
Consultancy and an
impressive development
record including the
London 2012 Olympic
venues, the ‘Cheesegrater’
and Heathrow Terminal
2. Andy has worked with
a variety of industry
leading clients,
consultants and
contractors; successfully
delivering projects across
the UK. He is now Head of
Projects at the University
of Cambridge, whose
Estate is the largest estate
in Higher Education with
an existing 772,000 m2
built space within 375
teaching, research and
operational buildings.
The operational estate is
valued at £5.4 billion
(2025 Insurance
Replacement Cost) and
comprises a diverse range
from Grade 1 Listed
buildings to state-of-theart laboratories.
Naila is a partner at
Wright & Wright
Architects, with
responsibility for several
high-profile cultural
projects. She has been
leading the team on the
decade-long major
redevelopment of the
Museum of the Home in
east London and is
currently partner in
charge of a new highly
sustainable student
campus for St Edmund
Hall in north Oxford. A
creative thinker around
all aspects of architectural
heritage and its
relationship with new
interventions, she is also
highly experienced in
driving consultation with
stakeholders and wider
communities. As a
committed advocate of
practitioner engagement
in schools, Naila is an
examiner at various
schools of architecture
and leads a group
involved with the London
School of Architecture’s
Partnership Network. She
is a member of the
Cathedral Fabric
Commission for England
and sits on the board of
trustees at the Horniman
Museum and Gardens.
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Catherine Slessor is an
architectural critic, editor
and writer. She originally
studied architecture at the
University of Edinburgh,
before going on to pursue
a high profile career in
architectural journalism.
She is a former editor of
the Architectural Review
and has contributed to a
range of media outlets,
including the Guardian,
Observer, Architects’
Journal, Icon,
Architectural Record and
Dezeen. Her selected
publications include Eco
Tech, a study of the
relationship between
architecture and
environmental
awareness, and Concrete
Regionalism, which
considers the influence of
vernacular traditions on
contemporary practice.
She has lectured at
architectual conferences
in the UK, USA, South
Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka
and Argentina, and has
been a juror on numerous
national and international
awards programmes. She
is also a former President
of the 20th Century
Society, which campaigns
for the preservation and
reuse of Britain’s modern
architectural heritage.
