Team

Becca is our Creative Director. She is also an Architect. She is a founding Director along with Marc.

Becca manages the creative direction of the practice. She takes an overview on all design projects and provides input at key stages. Becca works closely with the Associates and design team to develop thoughtful designs and to shape clever responses to briefs for our clients.

A skilled and thoughtful Architect, Becca delivers complex built projects at a wide range of scales - from pavilions and public realm works, to renovations, creative workspaces, cultural and community buildings and arts hubs.

Becca is particularly experienced at developing robust briefs for clients, and building their knowledge of, and ambition for, design and construction processes.

In 2019, Becca was appointed to the Glasgow Urban Design Panel where she provides constructive advice to development, design teams and planners, as part of the pre-application consultation process. In 2021, Becca was made a Trustee of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), and a Glasgow Institute of Architects (GIA) Council Member.

becca@new-practice.co.uk

Freya Macleod is a Place Designer. She joined New Practice in 2025. With experience in spatial, graphic & co-design, her work spans from strategy and engagement through to design and fabrication. At the core of Freya’s design practice are collaborative ways of working that connect a place to its social histories & stories, to have a positive future impact on collective wellbeing and a sense of community.Since studying BDes(Hons) Interior & Environmental Design at DJCAD, she has contributed to major exhibition & engagement projects across the UK with partners such as UNESCO, Scottish Government, V&A Dundee, Camanachd Association and the National Trust, while maintaining a grassroots artistic practice which focuses on human-scaled environmental sculpture and workshop facilitation in rural communities.Freya is passionate about the relationship between people, place and nature, with strong cultural ties to the Outer Hebrides. The use of Gàidhlig through Freya’s work is important as a communication method working on projects in Scotland, but also has developed her deep interest and care when working in minority or endangered languages, ecologies and cultures.

Lauren is a Place Coordinator with a background in architecture and community-engaged design. She joined New Practice in 2025. After graduating from the University of Strathclyde in 2024, Lauren spent a year working closely with Glasgow Girls Club, where she facilitated creative workshops, youth-led campaigns, and citywide engagement rooted in lived experience. This work shaped her collaborative approach, using art, conversation, and playful methods to help communities meaningfully influence the places around them.

Since joining New Practice Lauren has been developing this approach further, bringing together her architectural background with grassroots, community-led methods to support placemaking projects that prioritise inclusion and creativity. Alongside her role at New Practice, she continues to work part-time with the Glasgow Girls Club, where she co-designs initiatives that put young women at the centre of decision-making and supports them to build confidence, skills, and connections to thrive.Lauren enjoys using creative tools and collaborative processes, which can broaden access to design, making it easier and more enjoyable for communities to get involved.

Maeve is an Associate at New Practice. She is part of the Senior Leadership Team and is a founding employee at the practice working from the Glasgow office since 2019.

Her work at New Practice has spanned across built design projects, rigorous spatial strategies, and the delivery of event-based architecture. At the smaller scale, projects include delivering high street parklet structures, at the bigger scale leading the delivery of a 1.5 hectare meanwhile-use public space on behalf of City of Edinburgh Council. The provision of community spaces and public realm - in both permanent and temporary settings - are typologies that Maeve’s work often covers.

With a particular focus on Scotland, Maeve works with the Directors to support business development, regularly contributing in a leading role to public and private sector bids and procurement processes internally within the practice and externally as part of complex design teams.

Outside of New Practice, Maeve teaches at Glasgow School of Art. She also sits on the Board at Impact Arts, a national charity with the remit to transform lives through participation in creative activities.

Samuel is a Senior Designer. He joined New Practice in 2021, and has worked on projects from concept to delivery. This has included an exhibition and events site for COP26, a biodiversity focussed meanwhile space at Walk-Up Avenue, and has led major consultation, placemaking and master planning projects for private, public and community clients across both urban and rural settings.

He is driven by the social and political implications of how we prescribe meaning to the places we inhabit. As a queer-identifying designer, this comes from a personal lens of equitable agency and the provision of space and safety for all members of society, from all backgrounds and of all identities; he is passionate about forefronting intersectional, queer experiences and perspectives on culture and society.

Samuel is a foundational committee member and Chair of Open Plan Scotland, a volunteer-led advocacy and support network for the LGBTQIA+ community studying or working in Architecture in Scotland.

Marieke is a Place Designer and joined New Practice in 2025. Her work includes assisting the development of design concepts, creating engagement tools and strategies and designing and facilitating stakeholder and community workshops, and is currently supporting feasibility studies and placemaking strategies in Scotland.

Marieke is inspired by the work of local heroes who drive local grassroots projects, and sees her work as an opportunity to further contribute to creating equity in our neighbourhoods. She will draw on her previous service design experience to ensure user needs and aspirations are at the heart of her work- blending design thinking with shaping the places in which we live, work and play. She is passionate about engaging inclusively and creatively with community groups through co-design. By ensuring they have the tools to drive and champion the changes they want to see, she believes we can create places that help to address the social, economic and environmental challenges of today.