Ken Taylor
(Dip. Arch.) Registered Architect, Director.
Ken graduated from the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow after gaining his undergraduate degree at the Polytechnic of Central London. He has worked as a freelance architect in Scotland and London, including Rock Townsend / Ralph Erskine on the "Ark" Office Building in Hammersmith, London, and for London Underground, working as a site architect on the Will Alsop designed North Greenwich Station. In 1998 he bought the ex milk depot at 2c Kings Grove Peckham with sculptor Julia Manheim. They have since turned this into a live /work studio and home adding three flats to the front of the building. At the beginning of the new millennium Quay 2c was formed as a vehicle for multi disciplinary projects. Ken has taught and lectured extensively in the USA, India, Europe and had a part time lectureship at the Oxford School of Architecture for many years. He has recently been a one day a week design tutor at both Brighton and Canterbury Schools of Architecture, a trustee and chair of Artpoint Trust, a Public Arts Commissioning Agency employing seven people in Oxford and is currently chair of m2gallery.