HTA Design is one of the UK’s most committed and experienced housing practices. Founded in 1969 with roots in the community architecture movement, it has spent more than half a century grappling with the realities of housing delivery, from estate regeneration to policymaking and post-occupancy evaluation. The practice has helped shape national debates on housing quality, planning reform and procurement.

Its portfolio spans everything from temporary homes for people in emergency accommodation to build to rent apartments and dense, mixed-tenure housing on tight urban sites. It embraces typological innovation and modular construction where these help address real-world constraints. And it is vocal about the planning failures and short-term development models that the practice believes sometimes stand in the way of delivering more good quaity housing.

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