Amandeep Kalra

Amandeep is an Associate Architect at Be First, where he enjoys working at the intersection of public and private practice to deliver thoughtfully designed sustainable homes and places for Barking & Dagenham.

He does this through leading on strategic visions, brief writing, research, design and procurement whilst bringing all these ideas to the table in conversations with residents, planners, policy makers, developers and politicians. He is currently a co-chair of the Young Trustees for the Architecture Foundation where he continues to champion equality by platforming lesser heard voices through several events that he has co-organised, chaired or been a panellist on.

He has also hosted peer reviews with the London Architecture Schools Collective, served as a guest critic at Kingston and Westminster University and has been a guest lecturer for the Bartlett. He is a member of the Southwark Design Review Panel and has contributed to the NOW YOU KNOW publication curated by Sound Advice. Amandeep is also mentoring architecture students through the RIBA & Beyond Barriers programme.