Amin Taha

Amin Taha
Born	1974 East Berlin, Germany
💼 Occupation
👩 Spouse(s)	Sarah Arnold
👶 Children	Sacha Taha

Amin Taha (b. 1974) is a British architect. Taha's architecture comprising a number of built works from the 2010s in the United Kingdom is noted for its attention to detail, material and process.

Biography

Amin Taha is a British architect who was born in East Berlin, East Germany in 1974. He was educated in architecture at the University of Edinburgh. After working for a number of architectural practices in the United Kingdom such as Chris Wilkinson Architects (later Wilkinson Eyre) and Zaha Hadid Architects, he founded Amin Taha Architects in 2003 in London that later changed its name to GROUPWORK incorporated as an Employee Ownership Trust.

Early life

Amin Taha was born in East Berlin in 1974 to a Sudanese mother and Iraqi father who had emigrated to East Germany to study medicine. His early education was realised in the Eastern Bloc system of East Germany. The family emigrated to the United Kingdom initially in 1979 to Southend-on-Sea and later to London but would eventually move to Abu Dhabi when he was a teenager. Taha and his brother would stay in the United Kingdom attending boarding school. He would attend architecture school at the University of Edinburgh studying with Scottish modernist architect Isi Metzstein.

Early Career

Amin Taha's early career as an architect included experiences at a number of well-known UK practices such as Andris Bersins & Associates, Rick Mather Architects, Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, Chris Wilkinson Architects (Wilkinson Eyre) and Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA). Taha set out alone in 2003 founding Amin Taha Architects that would later be renamed Groupwork+Amin Taha.

Architecture

Amin Taha's architecture is noteworthy for its attention to detail and structure. His constructed buildings display a tendency to unify the architectural design through a holistic approach to structure and expression, materiality and construction technology. Often in Taha's architecture rick, timber, concrete, steel and stone are employed directly to describe volume and space where construction details are left visible as architectonic rationale.

Marriage and children

Amin Taha is married to Sarah Arnold, a painter, illustrator and author. They have one son, Sacha Taha, born in 2017.

Groupwork

The practice was established as an Employee Ownership Trust with Amin its first elected chairperson, followed By Dominic Kacinskas in 2020. Their work has won several British and international architecture awards including four projects considered for the RIBA's Stirling Prize, Barrett's Grove, Caroline Place, Upper Street and Clerkenwell Close.

15 Clerkenwell Close, London, completed 2017, with its load-bearing stone facade and structure has garnered interest in the practice's architectural methodology, at first for notoriety having been given a demolition order by an Islington Councillor and their Head of Planning Enforcement, appealed by the practice and won when the latter confessed under oath at the 2019 public enquiry they had removed or certified planning approval documents. The design having gained notice was reviewed in the world press and understood for its innivative use of structural stone. Leading to an exhibition, "The New Stone Age" at the Building Centre in London in 2020.

Published works

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Bibliography

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See also

• 15 Clerkenwell Close

External links

GROUPWORK

References

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