Stuart Jon Traynor - Chartered Architect
Aspires to see further into sustainable design by continuing the work of others, and seeks to interpret the meaning in new ways, to fully understand nature’s part in our built environment.
SjT: A aims to push the boundaries of sustainable design.

Stuart Jon Traynor
In the UK Stuart Jon is a Chartered Architect, becoming a member of Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and Registered with the Architects Registration Board (ARB) in 2006. In the USA, where he currently resides, he is working towards his License to Practice as an Architect set out by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) and becoming a full member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
He studied architecture in the UK from 1996 - 2006 at the University of Huddersfield, University of Portsmouth, University for the Creative Arts Canterbury and finishing at the Architectural Association in London.
He graduated with HND (Arch) (1998), BA(Hons) Arch - RIBA Part I (2001), BArch(Hons)(Distinction) - RIBA Part II (2004) and finally with AA Arch Practice - RIBA Part III (2006).
In 2004 he received a Distinction for his Postgraduate Degree in Architecture (BArch), and was awarded the Holt & Wotton Prize for outstanding research work from the University for the Creative Arts Canterbury. He has a Royal Institute of British Architects President's Silver Medal Nomination and was featured as a top architecture graduate in various publications.
Stuart Jon has tutored architectural design in the UK and has worked for architectural firms both in the UK and the USA, including London and New York City.
He completed his internship with PWP Architects, Havant and Kerr Livingstone Architect and Designers, Portsmouth. As a professional, in the UK, he has worked for Donald Insall Associates, Canterbury & London and in the USA for Davis Brody Bond, New York City.
He has worked on major projects including historic restoration and new contemporary both sides of the Atlantic. In London he worked on historic buildings designed by prestigious English architects such as Edwin Lutyens, Augustus Pugin and John Nash, among many others. In New York City, since 2007, he has been a member of the design team for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center; part of the project team for Columbia University’s Northwest Corner Building and Princeton University’s new Neuroscience and Psychology Building, the later of the two in association with Rafael Moneo Valles Arquitecto and Columbia University's Manhattanville Project in association with Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
He enters international architectural competitions to further understand his theories and test new ideas to blur the boundaries that exist between built and natural forms. He is also writing a paper on seventeenth century English architecture most notably the work of Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke.
RIBA President's Silver Medal Nomination:
http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Project_Details.aspx?id=1466&dop=True
Featured in Building Design Magazine:
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=431&storycode=3038918&featurecode=11225&c=2
Royal Institute of British Architects:
http://www.architecture.com/TheRIBA/TheRIBA.aspx
Architects Registration Board:
http://www.arb.org.uk/
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Registered as an architect under the Architects Act 1997
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