Sarah Featherstone

Director

Featherstone Young

Biography

Sarah is an architect and co-Director of Featherstone Young, a practice with expertise in place-making and social engagement. She is also a member of VeloCity, an all-women, multidisciplinary team re-imagining the village for the 21^st century, creating new homes and working environments in healthy and socially cohesive places.  Her projects include the award winning Tŷ Pawb (Everybody’s House), a new model for an arts venue in Wrexham, Stonecrop, a new house in in Rutland and Ty Hedfan, a new house in the Brecon Beacons.   One of FY’s current projects is the campus for the newly formed Black Mountains College set I the Brecon Beacons National Park. Sarah teaches at Central St Martins, UAL and the Welsh School of Architecture. Her teaching and practice reflect her interest in the way people shape their environments and how architecture can stimulate, rather than dictate, activity and social interaction.