About
Grymsdyke Farm is a design research initiative located in the village of Lacey Green just outside London. Over the past 20 years Grymsdyke Farm has repurposed its agricultural buildings to create maker spaces and communal facilities where traditional craftsmanship blends with modern digital design.
Grymsdyke Farm is a destination and a reference point in the design sector: a place to develop ideas, explore design practices and investigate methodologies. Within easy reach of central London, its rural setting in Buckinghamshire is linked with design and making in a region that historically was the heart of the British furniture industry.
Grymsdyke Farm has pioneered a holistic and communal approach to design, making and learning that links reading and collaboration with the making process. Our programmes and workshops develop experimentation in fabrication, supported by lectures, talks, publications and exhibitions.
Grymsdyke Farm functions as a research facility, an experimental laboratory and a living-working space.
- Farmhouse: includes residential amenities such as a kitchen, living room, bedrooms and a library.
- Maker Spaces: at the core of the facility maker spaces are equipped with various forms of fabrication for daily experimentation.
- Outdoor Spaces: an orchard, tennis court, paddock, vegetable garden and spaces for events and site-specific installations.
Established in 2004 by Dr Guan Lee and Paul Starr, Grymsdyke Farm has supported hundreds of students, designers, artists, architects and other practitioners to develop research in the field of design.
Co–founder and director, Dr Guan Lee defines the creative vision as well as overseeing all its operations. In addition to his work as an architect and designer, he is an academic who teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art.
Guan Lee obtained his BSc in Architecture from McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1997), an Architectural Association (AA) Diploma (1999) and an MSc in Landscape Urbanism (2003) from the AA. He completed a PhD in Design at the Bartlett in 2013.
