Untitled Practice is an integrated landscape and architecture design office working across the fields of the built environment. Our work is relational and inclusive, founded in a belief that city, society and environment are best served by objective and empathic design approaches, which can empower and enable the human experience, connecting people with place.
Fenella Griffin CMLI, Founding Partner
Fenella is a landscape architect concerned with landscape infrastructural systems from macro to micro scales, committed to delivering climate and social justice through the work of Untitled Practice. She has been an educator throughout her career and holds various design advisory roles. Fenella is creatively and technically involved in all UP work, and has led key projects including the Aga Khan Centre roof gardens, Guy’s & St Thomas’ green wall, The Gardenway, Wandle Vistas, and most recently 6 coordinated projects for Andover.
Murray Smith RIBA, Founding Partner
Murray is an experienced architect who has always been interested in the space between buildings. His diploma dissertation was about the landscape narratives of Richard Serra’s installations and the songlines of aboriginal Australia. He is involved across the breadth of Untitled Practice’s work, focussed on design and implementation, having led award-winning projects including Sidcup High Street, Lesnes to Crossness, and Valley Gardens. Murray is also a design advisor outside of UP.
Jessica Edwards, Architectural Assistant
Jess has a sensitive design approach and great attention to detail, contributing to UP’s team developing, coordinating and managing project design information. She is a graduate of London Met (LMU) with previous experience on sustainable community projects in Romania, India and Australia. She has worked with UP since 2013 during which time she has worked on projects including Lesnes to Crossness, Valley Gardens, Kingsbury & Market Square, and Kingsway to the Sea.
Jennifer Smith, Architectural Assistant
Jenny is a graduate of the Masters in Architecture and Urban Design (MAUD) course at Cambridge University. Her MPhil thesis concentrated on the challenges of high street renewal and community empowerment. Prior to joining UP in 2021 she had work experience at Studio Egret West. Jenny is academically and technically able, and has worked with UP on research and design for The Gardenway, Rainham Riverside, Andover, and Quantocks projects.
Nicola Ida, Landscape Assistant
Nikki has retrained from an earlier career in silversmithing, metalwork and jewellery (MA RCA) towards landscape architecture through the MLA course at University of Greenwich. During her time there she won a Wilderness Deer Park competition for the Royal Parks. Nikki joined UP in 2021 and has been working on production information for Kingsbury & Market Square, and Kingsway to the Sea. Alongside her work at UP she is an associate lecturer at UAL.
Awards
- AJ Architecture Awards Highly Commended 2022
Landscape and Public Realm (Valley Gardens) - Surface Design Awards Winner 2022
Landscape and Public Realm (Valley Gardens) - LI Awards Finalist 2021
Excellence in Landscape Design (Valley Gardens) - UN World Urban Forum Awards Shortlisted 2020
Local Project Challenge People’s Vote (Guy’s & St Thomas’ green wall) - NLA Awards Winner 2019
People’s Choice (Aga Khan Centre) - RTPI Awards Winner 2019
Excellence in Plan Making Practice (Wandle Vistas) - LI Awards Winner 2018
Landscape Policy and Research (Wandle Vistas) - AJ Architecture Awards Winner 2017
Landscape Project of the Year (Lesnes to Crossness) - LI Awards Highly Commended 2017
Medium Scale Development (Lesnes to Crossness) - LI Awards Winner 2016
Adding Value through Landscape (Sidcup High Street)
Advisory Roles
- High Streets Task Force mentor
- DSE Design Review Panel member
- UDL Environmental Design Review Panel member
- GLA Special Assistance Team adviser
- AJ Specification Awards judge
Collaborators & Partners
- All London Signs
- Allies and Morrison
- Appleyard & Trew
- Architecture 00
- Architecture Foundation
- Arup
- BAM
- Bellenden Signs
- Blakedown Landscapes (SE)
- BOB Design
- Bobbin Productions
- Brac Contracts
- Caro Communications
- CED Stone
- City Build Partnership (BHCC)
- Civic Engineers
- Complete Ecology
- Design Collective London
- Designed By Good People
- Elia Loupasaki
- Expedition
- Fiona Fyfe Associates
- Flow Structures
- FM Conway
- Freehaus
- Gelling Studio
- Global Generation
- Hemingway Design
- HOP
- KPF
- Landolt + Brown
- Madison Cox Associates
- Maverick Skateparks
- McChesney Architects
- Morgan Sindall
- Nelson Byrd Woltz
- NEW Masterplanning
- Nigel Dunnett
- Polimekanos
- Potter Raper
- Project Centre
- Retail Revival
- Robin Lee Architecture
- RIDA
- Scotscape
- Studio April
- Studio Dekka
- Tim O’Hare Associates
- Urban Edge
- Urban Movement
- Velosolutions
- VORA
- Willerby Landscapes
- WYG
Clients
- Aga Khan Centre
- Baobab Developments
- Better Bankside BID
- Brighton & Hove City Council
- Buckinghamshire Council
- Central Bedfordshire Council
- Columbia Threadneedle
- CIT Developments
- Destination Plymouth
- East Suffolk Council
- Greater London Authority
- Kent Downs
- Living Wandle Landscape Partnership Scheme
- Living Villages
- LB Bexley
- LB Croydon
- LB Ealing
- LB Haringey
- LB Havering
- LB Islington
- LB Southwark
- London Riverside BID
- LxB
- Plymouth City Council
- Peabody Trust
- Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme
- RB Greenwich
- Sellar Developments
- Team London Bridge BID
- Test Valley Borough Council