Wright & Wright: ‘You’ve only got one life, so build buildings that you believe in’
28 January 2021
By Rob Wilson, photography by Ben Blossom
Rob Wilson talks to Wright and Wright partners Clare and Sandy Wright, Stephen Smith and Naila Yousuf on site at the practice’s soon-to-open reworking of the Museum of the Home
Credit: Wright & Wright
Walking around the soon-to-open Museum of the Home (formerly the Geffrye Museum) in London, Wright & Wright’s four partners, even socially distanced and masked up, exude a good-humoured ease as they talk with zest about its design.
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It seems indicative of a practice whose office culture Naila Yousuf, the most recently appointed partner, describes as ‘very social … a bit like a weird and wonderful family.’ Naila, who led the final stages of the Museum’s transformation, became a partner in 2020, joining Stephen Smith (a partner since 2011) and the two founders, Clare and Sandy Wright, at the helm of the practice they formed in 1994.