With 25 years’ experience in the private sector, Stuart has worked on a variety of projects ranging from award winning residential developments, prestige car show rooms at Canary Wharf, conversions of a Grade II listed Victorian Schools and a number of care homes. Over the past 20 years, Stuart has specialised in the residential sector working on large scale residentials developments with an impressive portfolio of successfully completed projects throughout the country. Stuart has extensive experience including site appraisals, large scale residential feasibility layouts, masterplanning, detailed residential layouts, bespoke dwelling designs, new house type portfolio's, coordinating outline and detailed planning applications with a project team and working on successful Homes England tenders. Stuart has extensive experience working for a variety of clients ranging from National house builders, landowners, agents and individual clients.

Ben has over 20 years’ experience working at Architect’s practices in Manchester, Glasgow, Selby and Wakefield. In this time, Ben has worked on a variety of projects ranging from industrial warehouses and offices, conversions of a Grade II listed buildings, Bespoke housing design, residential layouts and large scale masterplanning. Ben now specialises in the residential sector and works for a variety of landowners, volume housebuilders, agents and smaller developers. His areas of expertise include site appraisals, large mixed use schemes, masterplanning, residential layouts, bespoke dwelling and apartment design. Out of the office Ben enjoys spending time with his family and following his beloved Spurs.

Co-founding STEN Architecture in 2014 with over 26 years’ experience within an architectural private practice and a national house builder, Simon has gained invaluable insight to both client and builder’s specific requirements. Passionate about design from being involved in early master planning / concept schemes through to planning permission and post site completion visits. Simon is currently involved in many large-scale projects and currently designing an extensive range of house types for a private house builder. Simon is also nurturing the next generation of designers within Sten Architecture passing on his extensive design knowledge and skills. Outside work Simon enjoys watching Cycling, Rugby League, Football, most other sports, holidaying with his family as well as cycling and cooking, especially the outdoor pizza oven.

Thom has spent 20 years in the industry and has had experience working for 2 different national house builders where he coordinated a range of project sizes through the planning process. Thom also has good technical knowledge having good experience with technical aspects, SAP calculations, EPC's and Code for Sustainable Homes. Thom started working at a small practice architectural practice in South Yorkshire whilst studying for his HNC Building studies at Barnsley college. Since then he has moved onto Bryant homes (Taylor Woodrow) and later to the Sheffield office of George Wimpey homes through the merger with Taylor Woodrow, where he expanded his knowledge of the house building sector. In 2013 Thom joined Barratt developments, working under a design manager to help run a in house design department for Barratt & David Wilson homes.

Lewis studied at the University of Huddersfield, graduating in 2020 and achieving his BA (Hons) Architecture (International). During his studies, he further developed his skills in visualisation and graphic design while gaining essential experience in in architectural theory, 3D modelling and professional practice. Initially joining STEN Architecture as a part of our visualisation team, Lewis is now a member of our technical team, further developing his knowledge of current building regulations while producing planning applications for a range of residential schemes across the UK. Outside of the office, Lewis enjoys reading and watching horror fiction, travelling, exploring heritage architecture, and Magic The Gathering.

David is a highly experienced Architectural Technician who has worked in the industry for over 25 years. He has worked in both private and public sectors. In his spare time, he likes to play the bass guitar jamming with friends, enjoys listening to live bands and supports local bands whenever possible.

Harvey studied at the University of Newcastle, graduating in 2023 with a degree in architecture. During this time he further developed his skills and interest in the adobe suite. Along with enhancements in the understanding of architectural theory, professional practice and architectural technology. After completing university he spent time at a manufacturing firm that produced bespoke steel roller-shutter doors and other similar fabrications. Here we was able to further his knowledge in this use of AutoCAD, which was used to design a range of steel solutions across several industrial and agricultural sectors. Now a member of STEN, Harvey uses the skills learned in Adobe Photoshop and InDesign from studying architecture to support the design team from a visualization perspective. This includes producing concept diagrams, design and access statements, masterplans and general full-colour residential schemes. In his spare time, Harvey enjoys going to the gym, cooking and taking his car to car-shows.