SAM CAUSER
MA Cantab Dip Arch RIBA CA
Director & Conservation Architect
sam@samcauser.com
Sam Causer founded the practice in 2005, initially based between London and Berlin, keen to explore the possibilities offered by European integration and online communication, with a multi-disciplinary practice encompassing the fields of architecture, visual art, performance and social research. In 2010 he settled in Margate, Kent, from where the practice has become an established voice in promoting and managing intelligent change in complex, historic environments.
Sam graduated from the University of Cambridge with Distinction in 2000, and was nominated for the RIBA President's Medal for top international postgraduate student. He qualified as an architect while working at Meadowcroft Griffin, followed by two years at ORMS in London, before he founded Studio Sam Causer.
Sam is an RIBA-accredited Conservation Architect, so we're able to take on publicly-funded works to historic buildings.
Sam has a number of voluntary positions, including a Board member of the Margate Town Deal, a mentor for the Sixteen Trust, a former chair of the Margate Conservation Area Advisory Group, and was on the steering group of the Margate Neighbourhood Plan Forum. He is also a member of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, the Academy of Urbanism, and was a CABE Enabler and Design Review Panel Member for the East Midlands region while teaching nearby in 2014-16. He has been a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects since 2003.
Alongside practice Sam also teaches regularly at various schools of Architecture across the UK, and has held long-term positions at Cambridge, Kent and De Montfort Universities. Most recently, in 2017/18 he co-ran a post-graduate degree unit with Diana Cochrane at the University of Kent, focussed on Margate Coastal Park.
Alongside the permanent staff on this page, Sam also regularly collaborates with artist Carlos Maria and architect Geraldine Dening, on a project-by-project basis.