Founder & Creative Director of Benedetti Architects, an award-winning practice in Clerkenwell, London with wide ranging projects in many sectors including: cultural heritage, hospitality, housing, bridges and urban design. Their recently completed British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) Listed II headquarters on Piccadilly has won 13 international + national awards. They were recently appointed to re-design the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Listed II* headquarters at 66 Portland Place, London.
Born and educated in Canada, Renato worked as a stonemason & bricklayer before studying architecture at the University of Waterloo, Canada (his thesis was published by Shimizu Japan) and completing his RIBA part 3 qualification at Cambridge. While studying he worked at practices in Canada and Italy, as well as for BDP & YRM in London, and upon graduation, for 7 years as an Associate with Sir David Chipperfield Architects, before starting his own firm.
His wide public profile includes roles on Design Review Panels for the London Boroughs of Southwark, Wandsworth, Lewisham, and nationally for the Design Council. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is on the national Architecture Club committee and was a London Festival of Architecture founding committee member.
He is an experienced RIBA Competitions judge, as well as for many other awards, for instance at this year's World Architecture Festival in Singapore.
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