Public Practice: How I found a fulfilling career as an architect
      By Bryony Henson2023-04-18T06:15:00
      
      
        Making the transition from private practice into the public sector brings professional rewards and new challenges, writes Bryony Henson
       
      I’m a qualified architect with 10 years of experience in housing and regeneration and I’d been working in architecture for some time before I decided I wasn’t going to pursue a conventional path. Despite enjoying being a designer, I’ve always been more interested in the contextual issues that inform architectural decision-making than in the details of built construction.
I’ve consequently developed my career in residential-led masterplanning and have specialised in early-stage projects including bids, feasibility studies and planning applications for a range of contexts including dense urban infills to brownfield and greenfield sites. I’m fortunate to have worked with a range of public and private sector clients and gained commercial experience working with housing developers.