DICKON ROBINSON CBE, RIBA, FRSA.Associate (Architecture, Design and Development)
Dickon Robinson is an advisor on architecture, housing, property development, sustainability and urbanism to organisations in the government, voluntary and private sectors. He has long standing links with the affordable housing, architecture and construction sectors. He has lectured extensively on a wide range of related issues, and is best known for commissioning some of the most influential housing schemes built in London in recent times, such as BedZed.
He is a Cabe Commissioner, leads on Housing and Neighbourhoods, and currently chairs Cabe Space. He is also chair of Building Futures at the RIBA, a member of the English Heritage Urban Panel, a patron of the Urban Design Group, and visiting Professor of Architecture at Mackintosh School of Art in Glasgow.
He was founding chair of the Soho Housing Association from 1970 till 1980 and chair of the Foyer Federation for Youth between 1992/2001, He has also been a board member of Centrepoint, St Mungos Housing Association and has been a member of the British Property Federation General Advisory Council.
Dickon, an architect by profession, has worked in management consultancy, architectural practice and local Government, where he was Assistant Director of Housing for the London Borough of Camden. Most recently he was Director of Development and Planning for the Peabody Trust from 1988 until 2004.