About
Will is a British entrepreneur, educator, designer and writer. His interests lie at the intersection of cities, design, technology and people. Based in Manhattan, he is presently researching Builders of Change, a project exploring the role of entrepreneurs in the transformation of cities.
In 2015, Will founded the London School of Architecture, which he conceived in 2010 as an alternative educational provider to widen access into the architectural profession in the UK. Integrating a new financial and teaching model that unites academia and practice, Will raised $1.25m to support the LSA’s foundation and established a partner network of 200 London practices comprising 20,000 employees globally. At his departure, the LSA had 50+ staff, 100+ students and 125+ alumni. In 2021, the school’s intake, which from 2015 had grown 40% annually, was 40% people of colour and 55% women.
In 2021/22, Will was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design; and in 2022/23, a Senior Research Fellow at MIT’s Senseable City Lab.
Trained as an architect, Will was previously Executive Editor of The Architectural Review, an international magazine founded in 1896; a design leader at the Royal College of Art, ranked the world’s number one university for art and design; a fellow of the Legatum Institute, which creates pathways from poverty to prosperity; and a founding board member of Fast Forward 2030, a network for social/ environmental entrepreneurs.
Will’s work has been widely featured in the press, including the Financial Times, the Evening Standard and the BBC. He has spoken internationally, from the Royal Academy of Arts, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the London School of Economics to the European Association of Architectural Educators, Harvard Business School and Yale University.
Will is a British entrepreneur, educator, designer and writer. His interests lie at the intersection of cities, design, technology and people. Based in Manhattan, he is presently researching Builders of Change, a project exploring the role of entrepreneurs in the transformation of cities.
In 2015, Will founded the London School of Architecture, which he conceived in 2010 as an alternative educational provider to widen access into the architectural profession in the UK. Integrating a new financial and teaching model that unites academia and practice, Will raised $1.25m to support the LSA’s foundation and established a partner network of 200 London practices comprising 20,000 employees globally. At his departure, the LSA had 50+ staff, 100+ students and 125+ alumni. In 2021, the school’s intake, which from 2015 had grown 40% annually, was 40% people of colour and 55% women.
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