Hugh Cullum Architects was founded in 1999 and has become a close-knit team, with broad collective experience.

We believe the strength of architecture lies firmly rooted in the experience of everyday life. It is a given that building must be fit for purpose but it must also, at its best, reveal a poetic content. Architecture is an inclusive and interactive discipline and the skills of the best practitioners must range from meeting the most practical challenges of construction, to the less tangible issues of architectural culture, aesthetics and social and environmental responsibility.

The practice specialises in building in sensitive contexts and we have gained a reputation for considered and innovative design. Our approach to each project is unique and depends on a thorough analysis of each setting in relation to the brief. Successful building should be a partnership between client, architect and builder. In this respect we believe that our skills as practitioners, thinkers and teachers give us a unique strength to make the most of this joint opportunity

Hugh Cullum trained at Cambridge and went on to do a Ph.D. in architectural history before setting up Cullum and Nightingale in 1986. In 1998 Hugh was awarded a fellowship at the Canadian Centre for Architecture to write a book on Baroque architecture. He has continued to be involved in teaching and research as well as acting as architectural advisor or senior assessor to a number of RIBA-led competitions. He is a member of the Bloomsbury Conservation Area Advisory Committee and the Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Association.