—Architectural Assistant Part II
Phoebe Cowen
Barch, March (Hons)
Phoebe joined Burrell Foley Fischer in April 2026 and has since worked on both entertainment and education projects for the company.
Phoebe has an academic background in history and politics, and studied both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in architecture at the Royal Academy of Architecture (KADK) in Copenhagen. During her studies she took semesters abroad at both the University of Hong Kong and the Kyoto Institute of Technology, where she deepened her knowledge of adaptive material reuse, restoration, and architecture for social benefit. Whilst in Hong Kong she worked as a researcher, contributing both writing and architectural drawing for two books of architectural research, As-Found Houses (2020) and Curb Scale Hong Kong (2022).
She has worked in Hong Kong, Denmark and the UK at all scales of architectural practice, from large international firms – helping win big cultural project competitions – to small local studios – designing museum exhibitions and transforming old infrastructural buildings into public assets.

