Tom and Charlie set up in partnership as Guy Piper Architects in 2015.  We are a young and enthusiastic practice specialising in Residential, Hospitality and small-scale commercial architecture and interiors but also have a wide range of experience in Education. We work from concept to completion guiding the client through the design process to come up with a bespoke scheme designed around the client’s requirements.

All of our projects are modelled in Revit which is BIM software and 3D. This software enables us to produce photo realistic visuals, walkthrough videos and Virtual Reality to help clients visualise schemes early on. Examples of flythrough videos are shown in our Chelsea Townhouse, Brixton flat extension and Ilford new build house.

We can recommend other consultants that we work with regularly enabling us to bring a full team including Structural Engineers, Party Wall surveyors and Planning and Heritage Consultants.

We can carry our full architectural surveys of existing buildings with our high tech laser scanner that uses a 360° laser distance meter and high definition panoramic imaging to create a 3D point clouds.

Whilst we work from our studio in Islington we work across all London boroughs, currently with a significant amount of work in Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea. A significant amount of our work is in Oxfordshire and Brighton where we are based for a day a week.

As a chartered Architect Tom oversees every project. 

"We couldn't have been more satisfied with Tom and Charlie. They were full of their own brilliant ideas and suggestions, but they always listened carefully to what we wanted, and they would then design to fit our requirements. It was a pleasure to work with them, and I have no hesitation in recommending them." Evan Davis, BBC Broadcaster. House completed 2017. 

Tom Guy BA(Hons) DipArch PGDipArch RIBA
Director
Tom studied Interior Architecture at Oxford Brookes University before transferring to Architecture and completing his Post Graduate education at the Universities of Brighton and Westminster.

Tom has a strong educational background having worked on Nursery and Secondary schools, and Sixth Form and FE Colleges up to a value of £25 million, starting with his award-winning final undergraduate project for Grandpont Nursery Sure Start Centre in Oxford. Tom has worked for both small and large practices in London, Birmingham, Oxford and Brighton, most recently from 2010-14 at the award winning Nicholas Hare Architects where he worked on Dormers Wells High School, Ealing; George Salter Academy, West Bromwich and the winning bid team for London Priority Schools Building Programme. 

Tom was on the London Festival of Architecture Curatorial Panel for 2019, the panel responsible for selecting proposals for the core programme for the festival.

Tom is a leading Diversity figure within Architecture and the Built Environment. In 2016 Tom founded the Architecture LGBT+ network with a pride breakfast at the RIBA with a Q&A chaired by the BBC’s Evan Davis. In 2019 he gave a case study presentation at the launch of the Mayor of London’s Diversity Handbook at the Rich Mix Cinema, Shoreditch, and gave a CPD to the Architects Registration Board on Diversity. In 2020 Tom took part in the New London Architecture round table discussion on Diversity. In 2021 Tom organised the open call competition to design a Pride pop-up pavilion in St Annes Church in Soho for Architecture LGBT+ and the LFA. Foster + Partners won the competition and Tom liaised the delivery with the Council, Church, and F+P team. Tom presented Architecture LGBT+ and why we need the network as part of the Architects Journal AJ100 festival alongside Emily Crompton from Manchester University and Foster + Partners.

Charlie Piper BA(Hons) MArch
Director
Charlie studied Architecture at the Universities of Greenwich and Brighton and Building Construction at West Kent College. Charlie was nominated for the RIBA Bronze and Silver medals whilst at Brighton and his final Masters project was featured in Blueprint Magazines 2010 'Best Student in Britain' feature.  

Whilst working for ABQ studio Charlie worked on a wide range of high-end residential projects. Most recently whilst at Miller Bourne Architects Charlie headed up the £4million Aldro School Swimming Pool and Sports Centre as well as working on the Grade II Listed Hastings Library refurbishment, The Yehudi Menuhin School, and The Brighton Open Air Theatre.

Ruta Perminaite BA(Hons)
Ruta studied Architecture at the University of Brighton. Her final year project introduced the concept of CPUL's (Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes) into the Thamsead estate in East London. She proposed creating a heliotropic greenhouse scheme to provide residents with natural, own-grown greens. Before joining us in September 2019 she was working at the IBI Group in Brighton on large scale healthcare projects.

Over the last two years, Ruta has led on our virtual reality and photo-realistic flythrough video output. Ruta is currently in her second year of MArch at the University of Westminster whilst working part time.

Richard Townshend BA(Hons)

Richard studied Architecture at the University of Brighton before joining us in June 2019. His final year project proposed a mixed-use housing scheme in central Brighton which focused on increasing the density of the site, improving the quality of the public space and playing with a variety of defined entry sequences. His project was nominated for the Morgan Carn Design Excellence Award and the RIBA Sussex Branch Prize.

During the past two years he has worked on most projects across all the RIBA stages, taking on an increased number of responsibilities with each.

Richard is currently doing his MSc in Sustainable Urbanism at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, studying part-time alongside work.

Dan Chambers BA(Hons) MArch
Dan studied Architecture at the Victoria University of Wellington before joining us in September 2017. He returned to New Zealand at the end of 2018 to study his MArch at the University of Auckland, where his final project investigated how the use of photogrammetry could produce environments that oscillate between the real and the digital, with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ performance during pandemic-induced separation. Dan re-joined us in September 2021.