For our next Show & Tell we’re joined by Architect and Lecturer Scott Batty.
Scott has spent over 30 years designing and building, leading projects that have won RIBA awards, been published internationally, and inspired generations of young architects. Alongside practice, he’s taught at the University of Westminster for more than 15 years, shaping how students experience the building site as a place of real learning and championing sustainable design. His research into retrofitting 1960s and 70s homes even won a Civic Award here in St Albans.
But for this film, Scott has brought us something closer to home, a cast concrete and glass, tubular lamp made by his father in the 1970s. His father, a joiner and later a teacher, crafted it in his shed, it’s a beautiful (and very heavy!) object that speaks to the act of making, experimenting, and passing skills between generations.
It feels like the perfect piece for Scott to share, part family memory, part design object, and part reflection on the way materials, craft, and teaching shape our lives.
If you’d like to explore more of Scott’s work, you can find him at
