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Frances Holliss
Frances Holliss is an architect and Emeritus Reader in Architecture at London Metropolitan University. She studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Between her undergraduate and postgraduate studies, she joined Collective Building and Design building cooperative and worked as a carpenter and joiner for a number of years before receiving the Sir Bannister Fletcher Medal for her architectural Diploma in 1983. She became the first female architect partner at Edward Cullinan Architects in 1986.

Career and Work
She is known for her research into the architecture of home-based work. Her doctorate ‘The workhome… a new building type?’ (2007) traced a history of the building type that combines dwelling and workplace (‘workhome’) from medieval times to the present day in England, and made a close scrutiny of the lives and premises of 76 home-based workers from urban, suburban and rural contexts in England, through which a series of workhome typologies was developed. She received an AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship to develop a Workhome Design Guide from her doctoral research in 2009. This project, carried out in collaboration with Partners in Industry Baufritz, Fresh Life Company and Cazenove Architects, was launched as open access research on www.theworkhome.com in 2011. Her book ‘Beyond Live/work: the architecture of home-based work’ was published by Routledge in 2015.