Our Team
We have a core team of architecture and marketing professionals working on Beedier content. If you have a Beedier subscription, then please consider that our team is already part of your own business development team, providing up to date information, insights, and opportunities.
We also work directly with clients on specific projects and campaigns, so if you have any bespoke needs, please don’t hesitate to contact Robert Woodburn Park, robert@woodburnpark.com, for an informal discussion about how we can help you with your specific business development activities.
Robert Woodburn Park / Beedier Editor and Founder
Robert has been providing expert business development support for architects for a long time. In the nineties, he worked with Peter Foggo’s studio on brochures, their first website, and competition presentations, and then with Allies and Morrison as a Senior Associate Communications Manager for over 8 years, managing a large and busy team during a period of great success for the practice. After a sabbatical in which he gained an Architecture Masters at the University of East London (RIBA Part 2), he led the communications teams at PLP Architecture, and Alison Brooks Architects, before setting up his own consultancy Woodburn Park Communications. At every stage in his career he has had great success in creating winning tender proposals, award submissions, and proactive media strategies.
Robert set-up the Beedier platform as a way of offering focussed research into creative business development opportunities for architectural studios, of all types and sizes.
Marie Braithwaite / Writer and Business Development Strategist
Marie completed her PgDip Arch at the University of Westminster in 2022. She has worked across the residential, education and manufacturing sectors in practice, but her real passion lies in combining community and vernacular knowledge with contemporary technologies to develop spatial solutions to current world issues. A listener, designer, educator, writer and maker, she is a graduate of Christ’s College, Cambridge MPhil Architecture and Urban Design programme, and won the RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship in 2018 for research into climate sensitive development in megacities of the global south. She has also devised and delivered a comprehensive syllabus to introduce high school students to the world of architecture through intensive two-week summer courses.
Marie’s focus for Beedier and Woodburn Park Communications is tender research and assisting with the production of bespoke submissions for clients.
Yoojin Lee / Marketing Strategist
Yoojin graduated with a Business Management & Marketing degree in Seoul and has spent the last six years in London as an in-house marketing manager for successful architectural firms, including Studio Moren, and Studio Seilern Architects. She has overseen company rebrands, grown social media followings, and delivered successful project promotional campaigns in different sectors.
Yoojin’s role for Beedier and Woodburn Park Communications is focussed on client marketing and social media development, including the Beedier communications strategy.
Sophia Alaoui Chahid / Writer and Media Developer
Sophia is a graduate in Media & Communications at Goldsmith’s University, with a specialism in contemporary media and journalism.
Sophia’s role for Beedier and Woodburn Park Communications includes events and awards research, social media management and video production.
Tom Blaker / Web Designer and Developer
Tom is a vastly experienced designer of websites and has worked with a wide range of clients over a fifteen-year period, including architects, designers and artists. Since graduating from the University of Plymouth, he has developed his own successful practice.
Tom works on the development of the Beedier website, and bespoke commissions for Woodburn Park Communication’s clients.
Researchers
The tracking and research of data for the website, including the Beedier Zeitgest list is time consuming, and we are grateful to our research team who assist with this onerous task.
MD Minhaz
Darragh Gray
Nancy Carolin