Steve McAdam is a founder and director of Fluid, a multidisciplinary practice specialising in architecture and urban design. He is an architect with extensive experience in urban regeneration, masterplanning and participatory design and has led major urban regeneration projects in both the public and private sectors across the UK. He was appointed to the London Olympic masterplanning team by the London Development Agency in August, 2003, to direct all aspects of stakeholder consultation, public sector engagement and responsive masterplanning. Fluid played a similar role for the Kings Cross Central project for developer Argent plc, for which they received an award for innovation from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE).

Steve coordinates the activities and research of Fluid’s Think Tank and its academic associations. These equate to all scales of regeneration from large masterplans to one-off architectural projects. He designed the ODPM award-winning sports, leisure and community ‘Gateway Centre’ in Derby with co-director Christina Norton, which has drawn critical acclaim from academics, critics and local people. He is a consultant to the Council of Europe, and a visiting lecturer at London Metropolitan University where he was instrumental in setting up the Cities Research Institute and for the launch of a new MA course focusing on multidisciplinary approaches to urban regeneration. His work has been published and exhibited internationally.

Recently Steve has been project director for Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder projects in Newcastle, Sheffield and Oldham, and for Local Development Framework projects in Dalston, Kensington and Chelsea in London and in Chelmsford.

Current work includes a vision and public realm strategy for ‘High Street 2012’: a corridor reaching from the city edge to Stratford and which will host the last 6km of the Olympic marathon in 2012.