Dusan Decermic

I was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1962. My father was an actor and my mother taught political science. Following mandatory army national service my family including myself moved to London. I decided to continue my education by studying architecture at the Polytechnic of Central London ( now Westminster University ). I graduated with a Diploma in Architecture in 1989. I worked for Rick Mather Architects and Stanton Williams before setting up my own practice, arclab in 1999. As well as running my own practice I have taught design at Brighton, Kingston, and Nottingham Trent universities. My association with Westminster, this time as a lecturer continued in 1999 when I started running a Diploma studio, which was expanded by becoming part of the teaching team on the new MA Interior Design course.

After ten years of running a practice, I needed a new challenge and wanted to open up more scope for research and reflection on my career as an architect that started back in 1989. The chance came in 2008 when I was offered to take a position of a Senior Lecturer in Professional Practice at Westminster. Since my decision was already made, I accepted the academic position and closed the practice in April 2009.

Architectural practice

• 1999 - present arclab ( Director ) New private housing block, Camberwell, London
• New hotel, Ilford, London
• Africa House, main foyer refurbishment, London
• Woodside Cottage, Herefordshire
• King's Avenue, private house refurbishment, London
• 41 Chaucer Road, family house extension, London
• 19 Wesley Square, private apartment refurbishment, London
• "Schumann", theatre set design, Belgrade, Serbia
• 1995 - 1999 Stanton Williams ( Senior Architect, Project Architect ) Issey Miyake, new flagship store at Conduit Street, London
• Museum and Visitor Centre for English Heritage on Whitby Abbey site
• The Royal National Theatre refurbishment
• New building for Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, London
• Millennium Seed Bank in Wakehurst Place
• Winning competition entry for the new office building at
• No 5 Brindley Place, Birmingham
• 1994 Munkenbeck and Marshall ( Architect ) Competition for the extention of Lycee Francaise
• 1993 - 1994 AEM Studio ( Associate ) New leisure complex for North Kensington Amienity Trust
• New editing suite for JCA TV studios, West London
• 1992 - 1993 Private Practice ( Principal ) Private Residence, St. Lucia, West Indies
• Private residence refurbishment, West London
• Private residence, one off furniture commissions, Belgravia, London
• 1989 - 1992 Rick Mather Architects ( Architectural assistant, Architect ) Student residences, Keble College, Oxford

For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.