Design Studio
A Design Consultancy Studio for Architecture, Interior Design and related works.
Founded in 2017, Mary Duggan has earned a reputation for creating innovative and thought-provoking architecture for forward-thinking clients. Driven by clear reasoning and effective design communication, the studio’s projects constantly challenge architectural convention, with a strong focus on humanity, ethical practices, and the intrinsic value of materials.
Alongside traditional architectural projects, the studio is open to a diverse range of commissions, including conceptual design planning, feasibility studies, and critical design advice, and with long-established industry connections, will assemble the appropriate expert team to suit each individual project.
Research and development is embedded within the practice ethos through a residency programme (running from 2019-2022), ongoing engagements with architectural education institutions, as well as involvement in design symposiums, including an experimental pavilion constructed in the Versailles Biennale 2022.
Clients include cultural and educational institutions, local authorities, property developers, estate managers, festival organisers, and exhibition curators.
Current projects include a horticultural education facility for The Hepworth Wakefield in Yorkshire, a threshold structure and enclosure for The Garden Museum in the London Borough of Westminster, and a landscape-led scheme in Coulsdon consisting of 157 apartments split across 5 buildings and set within open public parkland. This project has been described by Rowan Moore, architecture critic of The Observer as ‘. . . the latest example of thoughtful, visionary housing design the government would do well to learn from.’
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Analogue Lab
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Metis - Analogue Lab is set up as a dark/dim-room to work with Historical Alternative Photographic Printing processes. Vrinda converted a small disfunct pantry at Kala Ghoda, Mumbai into a personal darkroom for herself in 2012 on returning from London after her Masters Degree. Self Taught in processes like Cyanotype & Gum Bi-Chromate Printing, she has grown to learn other processes like Van-Dyke Brown Printing, Salt Printing, Albumen Printing and Soil Chromatography through various workshops. The lab is equipped to work with these processes and is available for rent or for personal / small group workshops. The Analogue Lab provides a space for self-learning, practice, workshops and also supplies DIY Kits for enthusiasts.
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Vrinda Seksaria, Founder & Principal Architect
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Vrinda founded Metis in 2019. A graduate from the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT; she was an Erasmus student at ETH, Zurich, did a PG Diploma in Indian Aesthetics from Philosophy Dept of Mumbai University, an MA Photography and Urban Cultures from Sociology Dept of Goldsmiths, University of London and a Fellowship at KRVIA, Mumbai. Her work explores links between architecture, urban studies, socio-cultural theory and photographic practice with a focus on cultural archaeology of urban space and the politics of architectural memory, materiality, construction and decay.
Prior to founding her own studio, Vrinda has over 10 years of architectural experience at leading design firms in Mumbai like Bijoy Jain + Associates, Rajiv Saini + Associates, Serie Architects, ANL Associates and Studio Mumbai. and her architectural studio in Khar West, Mumbai in 2019. A member of the International Urban Photographers Association (UPA), she has exhibited her photographic work as part of group shows in Mumbai, London, Bogota, and Portugal. Vrinda has been a visiting faculty and juror at various architecture/ design colleges in Mumbai.
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Team (Past & Current)
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Vishwa Undaviya, Khushi Kothari, Nidhi Shah, Nikita Mendonca, Hiren Patel, Jahnavi Patil, Dinjal Damania, Gurbaaz Duggal, Kavya Madhu, Haleema Faheema, Samruddhi Gujjar, Shravani Shinde, Sakshi Parab
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Interested in joining our team ?
Write to us on careers@metispractice.com
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Writings & Exhibitions
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Research & Accademia
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