Deborah Saunt has always resisted the idea that architecture ends with the building. As both a practitioner and teacher, she has championed an expansive, democratic understanding of the built environment – one that seeks to address the boundaries between architecture and its social and political contexts.

At DSDHA, the practice she co-founded with David Hills, this outlook translates into projects that are as much about public life, spatial justice and lived experience as they are about form and detail.

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