Beth Hughes

Beth Hughes is the Head of Architecture, Reader in Architecture and Honorary Fellow at the Royal College of Art London. Prior to her current role at the RCA she taught at the Bartlett UCL, University of Cambridge, University of Liverpool, University of Syracuse London and University of Technology Sydney. Beth has an established career in practice, working for several design practices in Australia managing a variety of projects including the City of Sydney Library. In 2004 she joined the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam where as an Associate she she was responsible for a number of projects in London (White City, BBC masterplan, Commonwealth Institute/Design Museum), Latvia (Riga Contemporary Art Museum, Riga Port City) and the Middle East (Al Faisaliah Riyadh, City in the Desert, Jebel Al Jais Mountain Resort).

In 2009 Hughes joined as partner at Point Supreme Architects in Athens, Greece and established her own practice in 2011. Her work has been extensively published and awarded in several international competitions. From 2018–23 she served as Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum supporting the V&A East development. She was Thematic Curator and exhibition designer for the 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Her research is focused on trans-institutional transformation of colonial forms of architecture in the Mediterranean and their enduring socio-spatial legacy.