5 minutes with … Ben Stuart at Able Partners

Ben Stuart Able Partners

The firm’s co-founder and director on the success of his Create More podcast, the importance of having fun and why it is important to just get in and splash around

Why did you choose construction as a career?

I never thought I wouldd be an architect, but it all began when I was 10 - my neighbour was a structural engineer and, when he retired, he gave me all his tracing paper, Rotring pens, clutch pencils, and a drawing board. I loved using them to make my own posters, trace album cover art and cool drawings I saw, like an analogue photoshop collage. 

Then I became obsessed with computers, films and sci-fi PC gaming when I got older as I loved the graphic design of film posters and the scale of world building in both games and films.

I decided to follow in my dad’s footsteps and went into engineering at Worcester College. My tutors saw me make standard presentations look like film posters and my ability to build things in 3D on computers, so they suggested looking into architecture.

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