Christopher Procter is a RIBA Registered Architect specialising in sustainable residential projects in conservation areas in London. He is a director of Procter-Rihl architects established since 1995 in Islington, London. The practice is known for a seminal contemporary house in Brazil, winner of a Royal Institute of British Architects worldwide category in 2005, first in South America. The building was listed after only 12 years, as a ”structure of value and spatial quality, constituting a significant element of structure in the urban context”, (Equivalent to Grade II, UK). In 2008, the practice designed the Pull House, a project which embraced Passive House principles and Offsite Manufacturing. The project received 5 Star energy status for its sustainable features in the state of Vermont, USA. His book ‘Architecture and Beyond’, a monograph of his studio covering a series of projects, was published in 2017 and available at RIBA bookshop.
Chris was the Course Leader in Technical Studies, MA Architecture, at the Royal College of Art for 8 years (2008-2016) where he brought sustainable studies for the first time to the course. In 2011, he took the Passivhaus Design course at the Building Research Establishment (BRE). He has been an active member of ACAN since its founding in 2019, in the Existing Buildings and Planning Policy Groups.