Paul Karakusevic
Founder, Karakusevic Carson Architects
Biography
Paul Karakusevic founded Karakusevic Carson Architects to raise the design and quality the UK’s social and public housing. Over the past 20 years, he has worked with residents and local government to investigate ways of funding, improving and building homes and neighbourhoods which reflect the real needs of communities.
Paul is a Design Advisor to the Government, Housing Department, The Mayor of London, Urban Design London and Design Council/CABE and lends his experience to audits, critiques and review panels of major UK initiatives and projects. He was appointed as the Mayor’s Design Advocate to lend his design guidance to City Hall and local councils and is an advisor for the Metro Mayor Liverpool City Region. This year, Lund Humphries will publish ‘Public Housing Works’, a book charting the last two decades of public housing design and delivery in the UK, told through the studio’s housing and masterplanning projects. In 2017, Paul co-authored the book ‘Social Housing – Definitions and Design Exemplars’, published by RIBA.
The practice is currently working on some of the most challenging housing projects in the UK for a collection of pioneering local government client groups. Paul has lectured at the world’s leading universities and delivered talks about the work of the practice to architect institutes in Europe, America, Canada and Australia.