Jessica Reynolds

Jessica Reynolds graduated in architecture at Cambridge University, where she was awarded the Purcell Miller Tritton Prize, and at Princeton University.

She founded vPPR with Tatiana von Preussen and Catherine Pease in 2009 and has led teams focusing on cultural projects including Artist Housing in East London, the Qingdao Cultural Centre in China and exhibition designs such as at David Chipperfield’s The Hepworth, Wakefield, UK. She has also led a variety of other projects including Novosibirsk Airport interior design in Russia, several infill housing projects across London and a dance centre in Wales.

She gained an M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Architecture at Cambridge University. Her research has explored the relationship of art and architecture in a variety of projects from the Fascist new towns of 1930s Italy, to Robert Motherwell’s House and Studio in the Hamptons designed by Pierre Chareau.

She is a unit master for Diploma 13 at The Architectural Association in London, which explores the relationship between health and architecture across extreme scales. She often works as a visiting critic in both the UK and the US and lectures nationally and internationally about the work of vPPR. She was an editor of Pidgin, the Princeton University School of Architecture Journal, and writes for architecture journals in London. She worked previously for Front, in New York, where she became interested in how big concepts are translated into small details.