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Tim Stonor is an architect and urban planner specialising in the analysis and design of human behaviour patterns – the ways in which people move, interact and transact in buildings and urban places. He is recognised internationally for his work in the development of data-driven design techniques, and their use in urban planning and architectural design projects from city masterplans to individual building interiors.

Tim is the Managing Director of Space Syntax, an urban planning and design company – originally created at the Bartlett, University College London in 1989 – with a mission to develop, apply and disseminate a science-based and human-focused approach to architectural design.

He is a founding member and former director of The Academy of Urbanism, a Visiting Professor at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and a Harvard Loeb Fellow. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Norman Foster Foundation and a former Deputy Chair and Trustee at the UK Design Council, where he is now an Ambassador.

External positions
2021- Ambassador, UK Design Council

2018-22 Deputy Chair, UK Design Council

2018- Advisory Board Member, Norman Foster Foundation

2017- Senior International Advisor, China Urban and Rural Construction Industry Union

2016- Trustee, The Faversham Society

2016- Liveryman, The Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects

2015-22 Trustee, UK Design Council

2015- Freeman, The Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects

2015- Member, Faversham Town Council Public Realm Group

2015- Member, Design Council CABE Oman Design Review Panel

2013- Member, Lead Expert Group on The Future of Cities, Government Office for Science

2011- Member, Design Council CABE National Design Review Panel

2009- Advocate, Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

2008-10 Member, CABE Crossrail Design Panel

2008-10 & 2011-20 Director, The Academy of Urbanism

2008- Member, Expert Advisory Panel, Walk England

2008- Director, London Promenade Company

2007-10 Member, CABE National Design Review Panel (extended term)

2006- Founder Member, The Academy of Urbanism

2005-09 Member, Health & the Built Environment Steering Group, NICE

2004-07 Member, CABE National Design Review Panel

2003-11 Member, NHS National Design Review Panel

2002-04 Member, South East of England Design Panel

1996- Founding Director, Morrison Brink Stonor architects

Awards
2010-11 Lincoln Loeb Fellowship, Harvard University

2010-11 Loeb Fellowship, Harvard University

2006- Honorary Senior Lecturer, the Bartlett UCL

2005 Member, Royal Town Planning Institute

2004 Fellow, Royal Society of Arts

2000 Honorary Lecturer, the Bartlett, UCL

1996 Member, RIBA

Education
1995 RIBA Part 3 examination, the Bartlett, UCL

1994 Diploma in Architecture (Distinction), Oxford Brookes University

1991 MSc in Advanced Architectural Studies (Distinction), the Bartlett, UCL

1989 BSc (Hons) in Architecture, The Bartlett, UCL