Jonathan spent five years running his own office in Edinburgh before combining it with Purcell Miller Tritton to form the practice’s Scottish base.
Jonathan has undertaken a wide variety of work across Europe. He has also worked on projects in the United States, China, Taiwan and Korea. Jonathan’s experience includes cathedral and Grade ‘A’ Listed building conservation, as well as newbuild projects. He has worked in the hospitality, residential, workplace, educational, leisure, industrial and transport sectors. His experience includes jobs of all sizes from $250m contracts to small, domestic alterations.
Jonathan designs for everyone who might be affected by a project, not just for those directly involved. He prefers to make people, rather than formal ideas or financial considerations, central to his design work. He takes design very seriously and believes a robust approach is necessary to ensure users are satisfied with a design solution for years to come. Jonathan likes to understand and then work within the existing situation to arrive at a comfortable, integrated result. He does not believe in making conspicuous interventions simply for the sake of being different. As a designer, letting a building speak for itself requires clarity of thought and humility. The unique character and atmosphere of a space, building, area or organisation should not be eradicated, but maintained, nurtured and enhanced.
“Good design so often stands or falls on an almost indefinable sensitivity, perhaps even identified by a smell, as opposed to how it looks.”