Our principal has spent two decades shaping how Nairobi shops, dines and lives, and the studio he founded carries that experience into everything we design.
2006
Planning Systems Services
His practice years begin at one of Nairobi's established consultancies, where the disciplines of documentation and delivery are learned at the drawing board.
2007 to 2020
Bowman Associates
Thirteen years rising to Associate Architect, with landmark retail work including The Karen Hub. In 2015, Capital FM's Tastemakers series profiled him as a rising star of Kenya's architectural industry, speaking on how the country's dining and gathering spaces were changing.
2020
Design Assembly Architects
He founds our studio, and we build a portfolio of our own across retail, multi residential and affordable housing, from Belgravia Mall to Manzil Heights, holding to the standard his earlier years set.
What he stands for.
Architecture with social and cultural responsibility at its centre, in the language of our founding line.
Buildings that respect the client's money: stylish design combined with responsible budgets and sound maintenance principles.
A generation of younger architects mentored through practice, a role his colleagues from the Bowman years and from our own studio credit publicly.
On the record.
Capital FM · Tastemakers, 2015
Designing delicious spaces
Profiled as a rising star of Kenyan architecture, on how food courts and dining destinations evolved and what The Karen Hub would bring.
Tastemakers Ep. 5, the full interview. Watch on YouTube.
Video · Tastemakers Ep. 5
The Tastemakers interview
The full conversation with Susan Wong on craft, retail architecture and the spaces Kenyans gather in.
The Architect Magazine S01E01. Watch on YouTube.
Video · The Architect Magazine, 2022
Season one, episode one
Chosen to open The Architect Magazine's conversation series on Kenyan architecture and the work of Kenyan architects.
Bring your project to our principal's table.
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