Cristina Monteiro

BSc (Hons) DipArch MA RIBA ARB

Cristina is an architect, author, and founding co-director of DK-CM. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Moira Gemmill Prize in recognition of excellence in design for women designers under 45.Cristina has extensive experience working with public sector clients, particularly on delivering adaptive reuse and retrofit projects. Notable projects include the adaptive reuse of Harrow Arts Centre, Rebel Business School, Wroughton Academies, and currently, the retrofitting of Kilburn Mews and the Camber Sands Welcome Centre. She brings incisive knowledge of reading and diagnosing existing buildings to ensure whole-life carbon is maximised, and that buildings are future-proofed and resilient, and is an RIBA Conservation Registrant.Cristina won the School Prize for Social Entrepreneurship for her diploma project at London Metropolitan University. She has taught at Kingston University and Central Saint Martins, and has been a visiting lecturer and critic at the Architectural Association, Cambridge University, Syracuse University, and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. She writes a column for The Architects’ Journal, runs the Wild Cities campaign, is writing a book of short stories, and tends an allotment in Sussex.

Dr David Knight

BSc (Hons) PhD

David is a designer, strategist and author, and a Founding Co-director of DK-CM. He has worked on ambitious strategic, urban design, placemaking and policy projects since 2004. In 2018 David completed a PhD at the Royal College of Art School of Architecture titled ‘Making Planning Popular’ concerned with the politics of planning knowledge. Prior to founding DK-CM David worked for General Public Agency and on various research projects including the book ‘SUB-PLAN: A Guide to Permitted Development’ (2009). David is a Module Leader at the London School of Architecture, and previously taught at the University of Brighton, the Royal College of Art and Kingston School of Art. David lectures and writes internationally, is an external examiner at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, has been a trustee of The Architecture Foundation and is a volunteer member of the Woodcraft Folk. He posts drawings and photographs here.

Gilbert Leung

BSc (Hons) DipArch MA

Gilbert (Kiu Paak) is a designer, artist and illustrator, and an Associate at DK-CM. He began working with DK-CM in 2015 and has particular responsibility for and expertise in image-making and visualisation. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Bath in 2013 and his Masters at London Metropolitan University in 2015. Gilbert’s Masters thesis explored the design of standard modular catalogue housing in Ebbsfleet to provide sustainable organic growth in communal hubs and public shared spaces. His recent art practice explores the use of Chinese aesthetics in the Western world through studying historic objects, shapes, motifs and conflations of them.

Tom Bacon

BA (Hons) Cantab DipArch MA

Tom joined DK-CM in 2019 and became an Associate in 2024. He has participated in a range of projects at DK-CM, ranging from studies and research through to detail design, as well as facilitating engagement workshops, most recently working with the Westway Trust, Rother District Council and the Royal Docks Enterprise Zone team. He studied architecture at the University of Cambridge and completed his Masters at London Metropolitan University. Prior to DK-CM, Tom worked with Ash Sakula architects.

Emily Temperton

BA (Hons) MArch, PG Dip Arch, ARB

Emily joined DK-CM as a Senior Architect in 2024, having previously worked for Gort Scott, RCKa and We Made That. At Gort Scott, Emily was a Project Architect as well as the Placemaking and Engagement Lead, heading up the practice’s Social Value and EDI Working Group. She has a strong track record in shaping project processes with local communities, as well as forming engagement strategies. Emily enjoys the human scale aspects of architecture; making an impact through a proactive approach to designing, making, hosting and helping shape places.

Kate Stephenson

BA (Hons) MArch ARB

Kate is an architect and a certified Passivhaus designer. Her current work at DK-CM includes working with Transport for London and local stakeholders to develop a strategy for the use of railway arches in North-west London. Kate completed her masters in Architecture with collaborative practice research at the University of Nottingham, graduating with a distinction and a nomination for the RIBA East Midlands Inclusivity Award. Her masters project explored how public engagement outcomes could create alternative mapping to define the identity of Derby and inform future design proposals. Prior to working at DK-CM Kate worked on a number of heritage and public sector projects at Guy Taylor Associates and Jeanne Dekkers Architectuur. 

Ameeka Babra

BA (Hons) MArch

Ameeka is a Senior Architectural Assistant. She has a keen interest in working with young people within architecture having gained experience teaching in a secondary school in Ealing, and is currently working with the public in Harrow to develop appropriate public realm proposals for two town centres. Ameeka gained her BA at Kingston University School of Art and has recently completed her Masters in Architecture at Central St Martins where she focused on design led by public engagement.

Amandine Forest-Aguié

BA (Hons) MA

Amandine is a graphic designer and is responsible for the communication of the studio’s work and projects. She studied graphic design in Gobelins, Paris and graduated with a BA and subsequently an MA in Graphic Communication Design from Central Saint Martins, where she was also nominated for the MullenLowe Nova Award. Prior to DK-CM, Amandine worked with l’Echangeur-CDCN, a national contemporary dance development centre in France.

Molly Hughes

BSc (Hons) MA

Molly is a Senior Architectural Assistant at DK-CM, where she is currently working with the Royal Docks team, a joint initiative from the Mayor of London and the Mayor of Newham, to develop spatial proposals to increase waterborne activity in Royal Albert and Royal Victoria Docks. Molly obtained her BSc at the Welsh School of Architecture and Masters at the Royal College of Art, where her thesis project, ‘Taboo in the Loo’, explored her interest in gender politics and the built environment through reshaping the public bathroom.

Anu Sofuyi

BA (Hons) Cantab

Anu is a Junior Architectural Assistant at DK-CM, currently working with Bristol City Council to create a place-shaping strategy for Bristol Harbour. Anu studied Architecture at the University of Cambridge, where she developed an interest in social action and participatory practice. Her dissertation explored diasporic building and living practices in North-East London’s suburbia across domestic and urban scales. Anu is a keen advocate for outreach and has volunteered for Open City Festivals, worked in educational access mentorship with InsideUni and Angloville and gained leadership experience on collective design in collaboration with Cambridge Association of Architects.

Emma Twine

BA (Hons) MPhil Cantab PGCert ARB RIBA

Emma, currently on sabbatical from DK-CM, is an Associate Director at the studio. She is an architect and researcher and joined the studio in 2017. She has delivery experience across a wide range of projects, including heritage and education. At DK-CM she was responsible for the construction phase of a new education building at Wroughton Academies, Norfolk, and is currently leading on major adaptive reuse projects for the City of Westminster, London Borough of Haringey and Transport for London. She completed her undergraduate studies in Architecture and Spatial Design at Central St Martins, and undertook her Masters and Part III at the University of Cambridge. She has served as a tutor and visiting critic at both universities. Her MPhil thesis explored the writing of policy to support delivering diverse and multi-generational communities, enabling the sustainable expansion of a growing south Essex town.

Emma is currently on sabbatical.