About us


What we do

MBA specialise in architecture and spatial design for new build and adaptive re-use, often in city centres, historic places and areas of natural beauty. 

MBA buildings are designed around the activities they clothe, in order to:

  • dignify everyday life, 
  • connect to nature, 
  • promote health and wellbeing,
  • welcome, be easy to navigate, inclusive, comfortable and touch-kind,
  • relate to their setting: topography, landscape and the city.

Where Design meets Conservation

MBA is a design practice that understands conservation. Designs that:

  • respect and understand what is already here,
  • manage transformative change by careful intervention,
  • retain long term value in its deepest sense.

Who we do it for

Property owning institutions and companies seeking to optimise long term value including:

  • Universities
  • Colleges
  • Schools
  • Religious institutions
  • Charities
  • Estates and Companies;

Developers looking to get the best out of difficult and challenging sites;

Private individuals, for whom we design one-off houses,

Special projects and small works include sculpture, minor works to public buildings and townscapes.

Collaboration

MBA also collaborate with other practices, acting as conservation architects on major projects affecting high value heritage assets.