Peter Barber

• Honorific Suffix — OBE RA • Name — Peter Barber • Birth Name — Peter Ambrose Barber • Born — November 1960 • Education — * University of Sheffield • Central London Polytechnic • Significant Buildings — Mixed-use and residential schemes

Barber is from Surrey. He studied at the University of Sheffield, graduating in 1983, and Central London Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster), graduating in 1986.

• Illustration — Houses in Enfield designed by Peter Barber Barber began his career working with Richard Rogers, Will Alsop, and Jestico + Whiles. In 1989, Barber opened Peter Barber Architects, a practice that principally designs mixed-use and residential schemes. His studio is housed in a Victorian former printworks shop in Kings Cross. He is currently a lecturer and reader in architecture at the University of Westminster. He has presented at numerous events including the Architecture Foundation and Babican's series Architecture on Stage; the Royal Institute of British Architects; the Architectural League of New York; and international and domestic university schools of architecture including Helsinki, Pretoria, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Burma, Munich, Genoa, Istanbul and Colombo as well as Oxford University and The Bartlett – University College London. In 2019, his work was displayed at the Design Museum, London. Barber was one of three selected to be a new Royal Academician at the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in 2022. He curated the RA's 2023 summer exhibition architecture room. In addition, Barber won the 2022 Soane Medal.