Alan Stanton - architect United Kingdom principal Stanton Williams member of CABE vice presidnet of teh Architectural Association fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Alan Stanton AA Dipl (Hons) M.Arch. RIBA trained at the Architectural Association, London. He was awarded a Fellowship in Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Following a period of work with Norman Foster, he worked with Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers on the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1971 - 1977). Later in private practice, he designed part of the Museum of Science and Industry at La Villette, Paris.
Alan Stanton established the practice Stanton Williams in 1985 with Paul Williams bringing together their experience working
on projects in the UK and around the world. Their shared passion for the Arts established the creative direction of the practice and continues to strongly inform their approach to design.
Alan is current a member of the Design Panel of the Commission for Architecture and the Build Environment, Vice President of the Architectural Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Diploma (Honours) Architectural Association, London
Master of Architecture (Urban Design)
University of California, Los Angeles

Member Royal Institute of British Architects
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Medalist, Societe des Architectes Diplome par le Government, Paris, 1967
Regents Fellow and Alumni Award, UCLA 1970

Architectural Association, Unit Master 1978 - 1981
External Examiner, Kingston Polytechnic 1989 - 1992
External Examiner, University of East London 1993 - 1996
External Examiner, Oxford Brookes University 2000 - 2003

1967 - 1968 Foster Associates, London - Architect
Factory / office refurbishment for Computer Technology Limited: Shipping Line offices and facilities for Fred Olsen Limited; Prize-winning scheme for Newport Comprehensive School competition.

1969 - 1971 Chrysalis, Los Angeles - Partner
Pavilion for Pepsi-Cola Limited, World Expo '70 Osaka, Japan; Film set designs for Twentieth Century Fox; Design for film theatre and museum for Universal Studios Limited; Relocatable theatre for Graphic Film Corporation; a variety of lightweight structures (as mobile educational and exhibition facilities).

1971 - 1977 Piano and Rogers, Paris - Project Architect
The design and the construction of the Pompidou Centre; Concept design development; Leader of the team working on museum spaces, theatres, restaurants, offices, all interior systems, lighting, etc.

1978 - 1986 Private practice, London
La Villette Museum of Science and Industry; Billingsgate Market (for Save Britain's Heritage); Prize-winning scheme for the Robertson Awards competition on the Hampton site, London; Prize-winning scheme for the international DOM headquarters competition, Germany; Information Centre for the Institute for Acoustical and Musical Research, Paris; Design Consultant on Lloyd's Redevelopment and Coin Street Development, London; Office Refurbishment, Orleans, France for Unisabi Limited; Theatre / auditorium for S.E.R.S La Defense, Paris; Experimental car design for Fiat, Turin, Italy; Summer Pavilions for the Tate Gallery and Winsor and Newton Limited, Tate Gallery, London.

1986 - Stanton.Williams, London - Partner
Major projects include: The Millenium Seedbank, Ashmolean Museum, National Theatre modernisation, Compton Verney Art Gallery, University buildings for Birkbeck College and City University, a new public square next to the Tower of London, office buildings at Brindley Place, Birmingham and Sloane Avenue, London, as well as exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery, the Royal Academy and abroad, and a sequence of projects for Issey Miyake.

Alan has lectured in America, Europe and Britain and many of the projects have been published extensively in books and journals.

He is currently a member of the Design Review Panel for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, as well as Vice-President of the Architectural Association in London.