Aydin Crouch

Aydin Crouch

BA MA

Senior Professional

Aydin works across a wide range of building types and has overseen many successful Listed Building Consent applications, Conservation Management Plans, Conservation Area Appraisals and assessments of listability. His work has ranged from researching historic buildings and producing policies regarding their management, to advising on complex refurbishments and alterations to historic assets often within challenging and constrained sites.

Aydin has worked on buildings from most eras, from medieval churches and timber framed houses to postwar structures, such as the Barbican and the Royal Festival Hall. He has also worked on a wide variety of building types, such as railway stations, arts institutions, hospitals, residential properties, public buildings and parks; as well as creating and/or contributing to policy and strategy documents, such as conservation area appraisals, design guidance documents and local heritage strategies. The projects he has worked on have often responded to common themes facing historic buildings and areas, such as sustainability and accessibility improvements, and how to manage new development. Many of these projects have involved consultation with the public and/or have worked around constrained budgets.

He has developed a particular specialism for public buildings, working on many arts centres, train stations and places of worship. Alongside this, he has gained a deep knowledge of postwar structures, being the primary heritage consultant for the multi-million-pound Barbican Renewal Project, the Southbank Centre’s 75th anniversary projects, the University of Leeds Masterplan Framework and several prefab schools of Hertfordshire.

Aydin also has much experience working on projects that take into consideration the wider public realm, such as the Crystal Palace Park Regeneration Plan, the Clapham Junction Urban Heart Masterplan and the Great Whyte urban improvement project in Cambridgeshire. This coincides with his other interest, healthy streets campaigning. As part of this, he runs SafeCycleLDN, which provides maps and written material about safe cycle routes in London.