Senior Fellow for Sustainable Housing and Urban Planning

Mr. Bednarski is an architect and urban planner with 29 years of broad based experince, recognised internationally, among others, for his innovative bridge designs and solutions to slum housing. Since 2001, he has been the founder director of Studio Bednarski in London. He serves as an advisor to UNESCO, the mayor of Warsaw, Poland and two London Boroughs. He was the architect for the Mahasaraswathi Educational and Ecological Foundation in Andhra Pradesh, India. He was consulted by Daimler Chrysler on Smart car design and its marketing in the UK, and by Toyota cars on car interior design.
Mr. Bednarski has been praised for his innovative design concepts for low-cost housing and unplanned communities, including a project in the Paris suburbs and innovative designs for the slum communities of Kariobangi and Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, which house more than a million people.
Mr. Bednarski has been the outright winner of 19 UK and international architectural and urban design competitions. His list of awards includes both the Royal Institute of British Architects Awards as well as the prestigious Cityscape/Architectural Review global award for community projects in emerging world for his Kariobangi South Project. His experience includes low energy projects, most recently his proposal for an Energy and Resource Efficient Mini Eco-City covering 59.61 hectares with 270 houses and some 1800 apartments on a new reclaimed island in the Lagos Lagoon. The world’s first speculative office building powered by a building integrated photovoltaic facade at the Doxford International Business Park, the winner of the Eurosolar Award and the UK Millennium Product Award in 1999, was carried by Mr Bednarski’s previous practice, which he sold in 2001.
Mr. Bednarski is an architect and urban planner with 29 years of broad based experince, recognised internationally, among others, for his innovative bridge designs and solutions to slum housing. Since 2001, he has been the founder director of Studio Bednarski in London. He serves as an advisor to UNESCO, the mayor of Warsaw, Poland and two London Boroughs. He was the architect for the Mahasaraswathi Educational and Ecological Foundation in Andhra Pradesh, India. He was consulted by Daimler Chrysler on Smart car design and its marketing in the UK, and by Toyota cars on car interior design.
Mr. Bednarski has been praised for his innovative design concepts for low-cost housing and unplanned communities, including a project in the Paris suburbs and innovative designs for the slum communities of Kariobangi and Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, which house more than a million people.
Mr. Bednarski has been the outright winner of 19 UK and international architectural and urban design competitions. His list of awards includes both the Royal Institute of British Architects Awards as well as the prestigious Cityscape/Architectural Review global award for community projects in emerging world for his Kariobangi South Project. His experience includes low energy projects, most recently his proposal for an Energy and Resource Efficient Mini Eco-City covering 59.61 hectares with 270 houses and some 1800 apartments on a new reclaimed island in the Lagos Lagoon. The world’s first speculative office building powered by a building integrated photovoltaic facade at the Doxford International Business Park, the winner of the Eurosolar Award and the UK Millennium Product Award in 1999, was carried by Mr Bednarski’s previous practice, which he sold in 2001.