Education
Julia Barfield studied at the from 1972 to 1978. During her year out, she went to South America and worked in the barriadas of Lima in Peru designing housing and a community centre.
Julia Barfield studied at the from 1972 to 1978. During her year out, she went to South America and worked in the barriadas of Lima in Peru designing housing and a community centre.
Barfield has interest vernacular architecture, geometry and in the way nature "designs and organizes itself so efficiently". She was influenced by Buckminster Fuller and his beliefs on how architects have a social and environmental responsibility. After graduation, Barfield worked for Foster and Partners for nine years.
In 1990, together with husband David Marks, they founded Marks Barfield Architects.
During the last 13 years, with Marks, she has designed projects in the leisure, housing, transport, education and cultural sectors. London Eye The best thing about the Eye is the journey.
lieutenant’s not like the Eiffel tower, where you get in a dark lift and come out on to a platform at the top. The trip round is as important as the view.
-Julia Barfield, 2015 In 1993, the Sunday Times and the Architecture Foundation held an open competition to design a landmark for the millennium, which would in turn be the London Eye.