BA (Hons) Architecture 2026
“Since graduating from the Architecture BA at Oxford Brookes in 2015, my career has been shaped by my time in the Oxford Brookes studios.”
"At Oxford Brookes I developed a love for existing buildings and established the belief that architecture carries ethical responsibilities."
After Oxford Brookes I completed my postgraduate studies and spent a decade in practice. I developed a specialism in carefully upgrading historic homes, working with listed buildings and conservation areas, and learning how low-energy design, good detailing and honest materials can sit comfortably within a heritage context.
"I launched my own practice,"
Fynn Architects, an architecture and interiors studio focused on sustainable, heritage homes. We work mainly with private clients who are renovating or extending period properties, often listed or in conservation areas. Our aim is always the same, to reduce operational and embodied carbon while protecting the character that made the building worth saving in the first place.
Alongside sustainability, Fynn is built around an ethical approach to employment, prioritising fair treatment, good working conditions and genuine staff well-being. These commitments have been recognised by the Mayor of London, with Fynn accredited under the Good Work Standard as one of just 190 organisations in the capital meeting this benchmark.
"In 2016 I co-founded Green Mat Workshop, which delivers drawing and design workshops across universities in the UK."
Through Green Mat Workshop, I have the pleasure of returning each year to work with first-year architecture students at Oxford Brookes, helping them navigate that intense, formative first step into the discipline. Looking back, the thread from Oxford Brookes to Fynn feels very direct, questions about how we live in old buildings, how we draw and make, and how we work responsibly with others all started there and are still shaping my work today. https://theojones.com/.