Robert founded Matlock-based Evans Vettori with Mariangela Vettori in 1995, after working with Norman Foster and Will Alsop, as well as a period in Italy. Evans Vettori specialise in education heritage and arts projects and have won many awards including two RIBA National. Robert was awarded RIBA ‘East Midlands Architect of the Year’ in 2014. He has been a panel member and sometime chair for over a decade. He also teaches at Sheffield and Nottingham Schools of Architecture.