Gallus people
Lesley Bell
Director Gallus Studio
An architect with over 20 years experience, Lesley trained at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, obtaining her professional qualifications in 1999 while working at CGL Architects, where she eventually became a director.
Lesley enjoys delivering all kinds of projects starting at various stages in the process of delivering architecture. This could be enhancing an existing or obtaining a new planning permission, leading the design team at tender stage or assisting her clients and their contractors in delivering a project through the construction phase to completion.
Marta Czaplicka
Associate
Marta is an architect with more than 10 years professional experience who specialises in large and medium scale residential and commercial buildings. She excels at good client liaison and takes clients through the process from the presentation of project concepts to development while co-ordinating effortlessly with specialist consultant teams, manufacturers and other architects. She has experience of working in an Arts environment and with sensitive historic buildings, including the Grade 1 listed Theatre Royal.
Marta studied at the University of Technology in Gdansk and has an Architecture and Town Planning Degree as well as a Master Engineer of Architecture.
Maria Stancu
Architect and Scenographer
In addition to being a qualified architect, Maria has an MA in Scenography from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. She brings her expertise in theatre and exhibition design just as easily to public arts and community spaces as to small scale architecture projects and interior design.
Maria is adept at handling complex planning issues and specialised consultants and is experienced with mixed use commercial and cultural buildings on sites of national historic importance, luxury residential developments, sustainable design, green roofs, natural materials and historic buildings restoration.
She believes that architecture and scenography can inform each other and produce projects that celebrate the aesthetic quality, functionality, space maximisation and unique narrative of every brief.
