Hugh Petter

Joining the URBANISM: Place-making & Place-mending panel discussion is Hugh Petter, a leading traditional architect and urban designer, and a director of ADAM Architecture since 1997, where he helps lead a practice of around 170 staff. In 2025 he received the ICAA’s Arthur Ross Award for Architecture, following the publication of his monograph Living Tradition (2023) with a foreword by the former Prince of Wales, and the 23rd McKim Lecture in 2024, The Value of Tradition, a Personal Journey. He is perhaps best known for his work with the Duchy of Cornwall, serving since 2003 as master-planner and coordinating architect for Nansledan, a 4,000-home mixed-use urban extension regarded by the UK Government as a benchmark for new development.

His international portfolio spans new and historic town and country houses, commercial and retail spaces, sports venues, higher education projects, and masterplans. Award-winning schemes include a new entrance at The Oval for Surrey Cricket Club, the restoration of Chettle House in Dorset, and the Levine Building at Trinity College, Oxford. A two-time Rome Scholar, Hugh has also played a prominent role in education and heritage organisations, establishing the Foundation Course in Architecture for HRH The Prince of Wales, serving as trustee of The Prince’s Foundation and the Georgian Group, and as Chairman of the Art Workers’ Guild.