Peterjohn Smyth, B.A., Dip.Arch (Cantab), RIBA, Partner
Peterjohn was trained at the Cambridge University School of Architecture and qualified as an architect in 1966. For most of his career he was with Percy Thomas Partnership in Bristol where he had been a Partner/ Director since 1980. His experience covers a wide range of building types including offices and laboratories, but his principal areas of expertise are urban design, housing and hospitals. In the early 1980's he designed the new Weston-super-Mare General Hospital and won an international competition for a new 300 bed hospital in Cairo. In the late 1980's he pioneered a new approach to rural housing in harmony with the local vernacular which led to his appointment by The Duchy of Cornwall as the lead and coordinating architect for the first phase of The Prince of Wales' groundbreaking urban village at Poundbury, Dorset. In the 1990's his designs won Private Finance Initiative bids for major hospital projects at Bishop Auckland, Wishaw and Dudley. In recent years he has concentrated mainly on urban design and masterplanning, designing housing and mixed use projects for a number of provincial towns including Shaftesbury, Witney, Tiverton and Abergavenny. In this period he also carried out various commissions for Bristol University, including a masterplan for the University's City Centre precinct. A member of The Prince's Foundation, he has worked as part of The Foundation's teams on "Enquiry by Design" events related to a number of major urban projects. He is also a member of the Bristol Urban Design Forum and the NHS Design Review Panel and is qualified as a Client Design Advisor. His architectural approach is distinctive in its emphasis on harmony with existing buildings and landscape and its respect for tradition. He has recently completed a book on the meaning of architecture.
His current work includes design work within the framework of the Prince's Foundation's masterplan for Sherford, a proposed new town near Plymouth, two village extensions for Lord Yarborough in Lincolnshire, the planning application for the Town Hall site in Tiverton, and a residential design code for the Duchy of Lancaster.
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