About

Keppie is an internationally successful company. Design is central to every decision we make. We aspire to create high-quality built environments through the sensitive interaction of form, light and structure.

We are a truly multi-disciplinary practice, offering services in architecture, town planning, interior design, landscape architecture and urban design and we have extensive experience in the healthcare, education, commercial and retail sectors. Our Clients include many of Britain’s most prestigious public and private sector organisations.

The underpinning ethos of Keppie is delivering quality in everything we do. For us, quality is not only measured in the environments that we create but in the human response to these. Our Clients’ experience of spaces, landscapes, buildings and interior environments, is equally important.

We are a people focused practice and we strive to enrich people’s lives. We believe that:

  • Architecture (and its related disciplines) is fundamentally a social art. Its main concerns are about people and quality of life.
  • Our work demonstrate's an understanding of those concerns from the perspective of the people whose lives will be affected by it.
  • Being people-focused means understanding the realities of everyday life that surround us. It requires observation as opposed to speculation.

We respond directly to our Clients’ requirements and aspirations in ways that fit the cultural, social and economic context of the project in hand.

Over the years, Keppie has developed a set of principles that have inspired our working processes and helped us achieve our goals:

  • Design within Keppie is process driven: investigations into any design problem need to be thorough, collaborative and robust rather than image driven.
  • We believe that success is achieved through intensive collaboration with Clients in order to fully understand their needs and aspirations.
  • Good design should represent the pursuit of simplicity, avoiding the over-elaborate and unnecessary.
  • All projects are unique and take the specific relationship to their individual context as their primary consideration.

Design is an integrated process of analysis and synthesis, enriched by exploring possibilities and seizing opportunities. As part of our ISO9001/2008 and 14001/2004 Certification, our Quality and Environment Policies are available on request.