Kay Hyde

Architect BA(hons) DIP(arch) ARB RIBA

Biography
Kay Lesley Hyde was born in Lincolnshire in 1976. Before embarking on higher education she took up work with a small practice in Boston, and went on to graduate with a first class honours degree in Architecture from the University of Portsmouth in 1999. During this time she was nominated for best portfolio and the best project award.

After graduating she was asked through invitation to join Hampshire County Council, where she worked as project architect on several large school projects. She then travelled to the United States and Canada studying dance, painting and architecture at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and went on to work for Anshen + Allen in San Francisco.

In 2001 she returned to Europe and learnt that she had won the Lyceum national competition in the united states to design a peace institute in Washington DC. Beating entries from The Boston Architectural centre, Southern California Institute of Architecture and Rhode Island School of Design. The award included a travelling fellowship, with this she spent time travelling and visiting some of the most important buildings of the modern movement in Europe.

She then returned to the UK and worked for the renown London practice
Anshen Dyer. She then returned to Portsmouth School of Architecture to
complete her Diploma where she graduated with distinction with a Design
Thesis focused on re-affirming the relationship between architecture
and nature. At this time she was nominated for the 2002 RIBA presidents
silver medal.

In 2002 she Joined John Pardey Architects; an award wining practice in the south and was project architect on numerous contemporary high quality public and private projects.

She obtained her Certificate of Architectural Practice from Plymouth University and is now a chartered architect registered with the ARB and RIBA. She is now practice director at Hyde + Hyde Architects; visiting design tutor at the University of Bath and visiting critic at the Welsh School of Architecture.