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AJ 40 under 40: PUP Architects
11 December 2020 By Richard Waite, illustration by Simon Hayes
The Hackney-based AJ 40 under 40 practice followed its 2017 Antepavilion competition win with this year’s overhaul of Surrey Docks City Farm
The directors of emerging Hackney-based PUP Architects are among the youngest to feature in this year’s AJ 40 under 40. Chloë Leen, 32, Theo Molloy, 34, and Steve Wilkinson, 34, came together in early 2015 to set up the studio, which focuses on schemes driven by social and cultural value.
The three first met during their masters at the University of Westminster. However, before founding PUP, their individual experiences of practice life could not have been more different. Leen spent several years at Sam Jacob Studio, Molloy headed to Bearth & Deplazes Architekten in Switzerland and then AJ100 big-hitter Grimshaw, while Wilkinson designed ‘meticulously detailed private houses’ at James Gorst Architects.