Mike Althorpe Author & Editor

Paul Karakusevic is founder of Karakusevic Carson Architects and over the past 20+ years he has worked with residents and local government to improve the design and delivery of social and genuinely affordable homes. To date, the studio has completed 10 major public housing schemes in London and has projects in Europe and North America. In 2017, Paul co-authored the book Social Housing: Definitions and Design Exemplars, published by RIBA and co-authored both Public Housing Works in 2021 and Retrofit Social Housing: A Practical Guide for Local Authorities & Registered Providers of Social Housing in 2023.

Mike Althorpe is an urban historian and researcher at Karakusevic Carson Architects whose work focuses on social housing and urban policy. In 2021 he co-authored the studio’s first monograph Public Housing Works and in 2019 co-authored Revolutionary Low Rise: Informing London’s Suburban Densification. While public programmes lead at RIBA, he produced the exhibitions ‘A Place to Call Home’, ‘The Brits Who Built The Modern World’ and ‘Mackintosh’. He is also an independent curator of walks and tours, compiling stories of architecture and the city as ‘The London Ambler ’.