Chloe Street-Tarbatt

Qualifications: BSc, MArch, PG Dip (RIAI/ARB), PGCHE (FHEA)

Chloe Street-Tarbatt is a registered architect and is Head of the ‘School of Arts and Architecture’. She is an active member of a wide variety of University level working groups and committees including the Senior Leadership Forum, Senior Leadership Team, JSNCC and Senate, and external bodies including SCOSA.

Chloe joined the University of Kent in 2012 while continuing to practice independently. She has experience teaching widely across the BA Architecture and MArch programmes and has previously undertaken a range of School-level roles including TEF Coordinator, BA Architecture Programme Director. Chloe is a graduate of the Welsh School of Architecture (1st Class Hons) and the Royal College of Art, where she graduated with first prize in the annual RCA Industry Award, a distinction for written thesis, and a nomination for the RIBA President’s Medals. 

Chloe’s research focuses on the psychology of space and how we can create environments that improve human interaction and quality of life through both their spatial organisation and material properties.  She has a particular interest in working on architectural projects that bring communities together and play a larger social role in society and has been pursuing these objectives through the development of ‘Live Projects’ in the BA design studio, forging strategic links with local practice and regional authorities and mobilising a number of public exhibitions of student work. 

Chloe also worked for the London Legacy Development Corporation on a project at QE Olympic Park developing alternative forms of graphic mapping as a tool for integrating existing and new communities, distributed at the opening event. She has co-authored a book (RIBA publications) documenting a range of block configurations and investigating their social qualities titled ‘The Urban Block: A Guide for Urban Designers, Architects and Town Planners' (2020) which won the Urban Design Group Book award in 2021.

Chloe has pursued her interest in the theory and practice of teaching through leading the MArch dissertation module option on ‘Architectural Pedagogy’ and won the Faculty Teaching Prize for her ‘Live Projects’ initiatives. She is also interested in investigating the relationship between design and drawing as a tool for thinking, assisting students with techniques and processes that can offer them new ways to explore and enrich their design concepts, thereby enhancing their comprehension and command of the design process. 

Chloe is currently leading a multi-disciplinary team to set up a pilot Urban Room in Chatham, with Medway Council and Historic England and MHCLG with an ambition to effect social change through enhancing public engagement in retrofit practices and placemaking/regeneration proposals. This follows almost a decade of funded partnerships with the team, exploring the potential for new strategic relationships between academia and industry, involving students and researchers in urban-scale projects, with a view to making an active contribution to policy development through collaboration with communities, consultants and councillors. 

Chloe has previously worked for number of high-profile and award-winning architectural practices in both London and Dublin, Ireland. At Dixon.Jones, London she contributed to a variety of cultural projects including the National Gallery East Wing Renewal, and competition winning university buildings for UCL and University of Belfast. 

Experience at McDowell +Benedetti included housing, private homes, bridges and other commercial projects. More recently she worked at de Blacam and Meagher architects in Dublin, Ireland, where she was the project architect for Abbeyleix Library in County Laois, which received multiple awards including a prestigious Civic Trust Award and the much coveted RIAI Silver Medal for Conservation in 2019.