Eric Parry RA | Principal
MA (Cantab), MA (RCA), AADipl, RIBA

Founder and Principal of Eric Parry Architects Eric Parry studied architecture at the University of Newcastle (1970-1973), the Royal College of Art (1976-1978) and the Architectural Association (1979-1980).

Eric Parry Architects was established in 1983, the year he was appointed as a lecturer in architecture at the University of Cambridge, where he taught until 1997. Significant early projects include an office building at Stockley Park, Foundress Court at Pembroke College, Damai Suria luxury apartments in Kuala Lumpur and the urban interventions at London Bridge.

The innovative 30 Finsbury Square won the practice much acclaim and was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2003. The office building Aldermanbury Square is now complete and has also been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize, and the Renewal Project at St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square has won many awards since its completion in 2008.

Eric was elected Royal Academician in 2006. He was President of the Architectural Association in 2005-2007, and a council member since 1995. He served as Chair of the RIBA Awards Group and was a member of the Kettles Yard Committee and the Arts Council of England Visual Arts and Architecture Panels in previous years.

Eric serves as an External Examiner at schools of Architecture in the UK and has held lectureships at the University of Cambridge, Graduate School of Design, Harvard, USA and the Tokyo Institute of Technology.