born in 1938, dave studied at the manchester university school before

working for 3 years in liverpool & chester then moving to london to denys lasdun's office in queen anne st  - 5 years  later he joined arup associates then after 7 years a move back to liverpool as fulltime tutor in the liverpool school of architecture led to a radical design for the new studio with

graduate rod mcallister - after five years at KM, shedkm with jonathan falkingham and james weston.

 was founded in 1997

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