Georgie Wolton was one of the founding members of the renowned
architecture practice Team 4, which included Norman Foster, Richard
Rogers and Wolton's sister, Wendy Cheesman (who subsequently married Foster). Initially, Wolton was the only qualified architect in the group.

In his bookThe Modern Steel House, Neil Jackson writes, "She had trained at the Architectural Assocation and had been a regular traveller to America, where she had seen both the Eames House – 'and I fell in love with that!' – and Philip Johnson's Glass House."

Wolton was also an affirmed admirer of Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House. Based on her experiences of the American pavilions she saw, she designed a house in Surrey that was the first in the UK to use CorTen steel as its primary structural material.

Cliff Road Studios was built in 1968, and is a rare example of a Wolton-designed building. While Norman Foster and Richard Rogers have become the most successful architects of their generation, Georgie Wolton went on to forge a notable career as a landscape designer.