Sussex
BakerBrown
Founded in 2013, dRAW Architecture is a creative and modern design company. We work on projects across London, creating inspiring spaces for homes, gardens, and larger developments.
Architecture
BakerBrown is a Sussex-based architecture and consultancy practice with a reputation that extends well beyond its size. Founded by Duncan Baker Brown and in practice since 1994, the studio designs homes, community buildings, and urban projects — both across the UK and internationally — with a consistent and deeply held conviction: that sustainable design is not a constraint on good architecture, but the very foundation of it.
The studio's track record in pioneering low and net zero carbon buildings is genuinely remarkable. Their credits include designing the UK's first A* Energy Rated Building, creating The Waste House — the world's first building constructed primarily from waste materials — and contributing circular economy thinking to the design of London's Greenwich Millennium Village. Winning the RIBA House of the Future competition was an early signal of where the practice was headed, and the decades since have only reinforced that direction.
What distinguishes BakerBrown from many sustainable practices is how seriously they take the intellectual side of the work. Duncan Baker Brown is the author of The Re-Use Atlas, a designer's guide to circular economy thinking in architecture, and the studio is regularly invited to speak at international symposiums, contribute to policy discussions, and appear in mainstream media. Their approach to sustainability isn't a marketing position — it's the product of thirty years of active experimentation with materials, methods, and ideas.
Based at Cooksbridge Station House in East Sussex and certified as a B Corp, the practice operates across architecture, consultancy, and speaking — three disciplines that reinforce each other in a way that feels very deliberate. They design buildings that consume less and waste nothing, work with clients who share that ambition, and share their knowledge freely with the wider industry. It's an approach that has earned them the respect of critics, clients, and peers alike — and made them one of the most quietly influential architecture practices working in the UK today.
Project featured with HomeInspire.
Dacres, East Sussex
When Architect Duncan Baker Brown returned to a house he designed ten years ago on the outskirts of Lewes, on the edge of the South Downs National Park, he found something rare: a sustainable, architect-designed home that has not only stood the test of time but looks, performs and feels as considered as the day it was completed. This is the story of how a tired, wedge-shaped bungalow became one of the most remarkable eco homes in the south of England — and what it still looks like a decade on.