Woods Bagot has named James Miles as the firm’s new global sector leader – cities and places.
Miles, who joined Woods Bagot’s London studio earlier this year as an associate principal, has two decades of European design and masterplanning experience.
Miles said: “The most successful global cities are the ones that are inherently resilient. They have demonstrably reinvented themselves as successive social, economic, and industrial revolutions have reshaped the rules of urban life. Right now, we are on the threshold of a pivotal point in history. Shaped by a post-pandemic collective psyche, a climate emergency, geo-political conflict and amid an AI revolution – the future is uncertain.
“Our Architecture for Worlds Ahead vision is a fundamental acknowledgement of this truth. We must always be looking forward, speculating about the future while learning the lessons of resilience from the past. Buildings rise and fall, uses shift and fade. Yet it is the urban networks and structures which persist over time – the geometry of human exchange spanning generations of a city’s inhabitants.”
