MSA has a highly qualified, committed and enthusiastic team with a genuine interest in its specialist areas of historic building conservation and sustainable design. This commitment is backed up by the voluntary and support work carried out by team members.

The size of the office encourages collaborative working, with sharing of specialist knowledge, ensuring the best solution for our clients, from a mix of new thinking and wealth of experience.

The office is backed up with an efficient support staff, ensuring that information technologies are maintained and optimised to suit our work needs.

The training of staff is actively supported. 

Mark Stewart

BA(Hons) DipArch(Edin) RIBA

Mark Stewart is the practice principal. He is an Architect and member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is a member of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (being until recently a Trustee), and former Chairman of the Nottinghamshire Historic Churches Trust. He is also a member of the Building Limes Forum.

Mark is a Commissioned Architect for English Heritage and the Churches Conservation Trust, and a Named Architect for the National Trust, and for the Dioceses of Southwell, Leicester, Lincoln and Derby.

Richard Ward

MA DipArch RIBA

Richard Ward is a Consultant, having previously been the Principal of Richard Ward Architects, and Senior Partner in Bartlett Gray & Partners.

He is an Architect and former President of the Nottingham & Derby Society of Architects. He is a Named Architect for the RC Diocese of Nottingham.

Jane Holt

BA(Hons) BArch(Manc) PGDip RIBA

SPAB Lethaby Scholar '97

Jane Holt is a Consultant. Jane is an Architect and a former Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) Lethaby Scholar. Jane is coordinating the establishment of an SPAB East Midlands Regional Group. She is a Member of the RIBA. Jane is a Named Architect for the Dioceses of Southwell and Derby, and a member of the Derby Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches.

Peter Rogan

BA DipArch(Leics) PGDipArchPrac ACIOB MBIAT RIBA

Peter Rogan is an Associate. He is an Architect and also an Architectural Technologist, being a Member and the East Midlands Regional Secretary of the British Institute of Architectural Technologists. He is also an Associate of the Chartered institute of Building and a member of the SPAB.

Gil Schalom

BA(Hons) DipArch(Nottm) PGDipArchPrac

Gil Schalom is an Associate. He is an Architect, and has particular interest and skills in the area of ecological design, having studied under the 'Vales' at Nottingham University, and during his 'year out' working for developer Nick Martin on the Hockerton Housing Project, an autonomous housing scheme, He is currently working with his partner to convert their Victorian Villa into an eco-house, a project that has already been featured on Radio Nottingham, Radio Trent, BBC East Midlands Today, and national publications.