Designing for quality of life.
Imperative Architecture reads and creates place as intertwined physical, social, and virtual worlds.
Imperative Architecture works across scales from human to territorial. We take interest in complex multi-stakeholder projects which require strategic and creative approaches.
Our projects span across East Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. At the forefront of our work is consideration for locality and terrain, bringing international best-practice design solutions to specific contexts.
We believe in the power of systematic spatial analysis and working across traditional boundaries between individual buildings. We value knowledge and the agency of decision-making, both in the spaces we design, and the way we convene and deliver projects.
info@imperative-architecture.comAlida Bata
MEng AADipl ARB RIBA OA FHEA
Founder and Principal Designer
Alida Bata is an architect, urban designer, and academic. She has continually sought out knowledge and experience from world-class organisations to underpin her practical and theoretical understanding of, and contribution to architecture. Alida holds positions as Validation Member for RIBA Education, and Architect Member for the ARB Accreditation Committee. She is a Design Teaching Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
Alida has practiced architecture internationally with Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Atkins, the British Council, and the AKDN. She brings 10 years’ experience in complex multi-stakeholder urban and infrastructure projects with experience across all RIBA design stages. Alida completed her Masters in Engineering and won a scholarship to study Diploma at the Architectural Association in London.
She held a post as Assistant Professor of Architecture at Heriot Watt University, and has tutored postgraduate design at the University of Nottingham, the Architectural Association, and several universities across East Africa.
Her work centres around the changing role of architects in address emerging challenges; namely climate volatility, limited resources, and the impact of the virtual world on physical space. More recently, design interpretations and responses to Crisis have been the focus of her research and design.
