joe stancer

Joe is currently a Part II Architectural Assistant at Pollard Thomas Edwards. He completed MArch at Manchester School of Architecture, graduating in 2019. Joe was awarded the Heywood Medal by the head of school for highest overall academic attainment, in addition to the Jicwood Prize for design innovation for a collaborative professional studies project. Research Joe took part in on mixed tenure co-housing models contributed to an interim report on intergenerational urbanism published by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Integration.

Having taken a keen interest in queering the traditional perspective of the architectural discipline, Joe was recently invited to present his final year design thesis at a symposium led by artists, academics and activists challenging the normative tendencies of the public realm. The project investigates interventions which reveal and question hidden structural boundaries, testing the agency and power relations woven into the material and emotional life of urban environments, including virtual and physical public space.

Joe joined as an Architecture LGBT+ champion in 2019 and advocates for diversity and inclusion internally at PTE, whom are part of a long-term consultative collaboration with LGBT+ clients exploring fresh approaches to LGBT+ older living and retirement communities.

Joe’s pronouns are he/him.