Ben Pentreath read History of Art and Architecture at the University of Edinburgh. 

After graduating, he worked with the architectural designer Charles Morris and trained at the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment, before working for Fairfax & Sammons Architects in New York.

In 2003 he returned to the UK and worked as an Architectural and Urban Designer for the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment.

In 2004 he founded his own architectural practice, Working Group Design.  In 2008 the expanding practice split to form a sister company, Ben Pentreath Ltd, specialising in the design of private houses, furniture and interior decoration.  We opened a retail shop  Ben Pentreath Ltd in November 2008.

Ben has lectured at the Courtauld Institute, University of Greenwich, University of Bristol, The Prince’s Foundation and in the US. In 2006 he co-authored with Marianne Cusato and Leon Krier ‘Get Your House Right’, a popular guide to traditional house building in the United States, that has sold several thousand copies.

In May 2010 he held a major exhibition at the RIBA, ‘Three Classicisists‘, with George Saumarez Smith and Francis Terry.