Studio.
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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.’

Mary Duggan, Director.
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Mary is currently a member of several Design Review Panels including the London Borough of Waltham Forest and the London Borough of Camden. She has also served on many other design panels and juries including the London Borough of Lewisham, the RIBA Education Committee, RIBA International, National and Regional Awards Panels, the London Festival of Architecture, the Stephen Lawrence Prize, and the Manser Medal.

Prior to establishing Mary Duggan Architects, Mary was a founding director of Duggan Morris Architects where she co-led the practice from 2004-2017. During her tenure Duggan Morris Architects received numerous industry awards for design excellence, including ten RIBA National and Regional Awards, three Civic Trust Awards, three Nominations for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, The Stephen Lawrence Prize, The Manser Medal and consideration for the RIBA Stirling Prize for three buildings.

In 2013, Mary was nominated for Woman Architect of the Year.

Selected Talks.
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A+ Architecture in Belgium/Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels 2023
For the Love of Materials/Peter Rice Lecture, Queens University Belfast 2023
Aesthetics & Solidarity/Open23 Solidarity, Aarhus School of Architecture 2023
Demands of our Times/Fritzschumacher Gesellschaft Series, Hamburg 2022.
Material concerns/Arkitektenes Hus OAF Series, Oslo 2021.
Dear house/Porto Academy, Porto 2021.
Wunderkammer/Architecture on Stage, Barbican Centre 2018.
A dialogue with Kate Macintosh/RIBA, London 2018.
Five projects/Univesitat de Girona 2018.
Does identity matter/LFA Lecture Series 2018.
Building on Bauhaus/Royal Academy, 2018.
Scale/Trinity College, Dublin 2018.
Five themes/Mackintosh Lecture Series, Glasgow School of Art, 2018.
Reflections/Air Rotterdam, Rotterdam 2017.

Writing, Exhibitions & Interviews.
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Oscillating Thoughts, Mary Duggan/OASE 106 July 2020.
A pavilion made of gypsum, then stone & wood/Versailles Biennale 2022.
Shaping Space, The Building Centre 2021.
A Home for All: Six Experiments in Social Housing/Victoria & Albert 2018-19.
Mirabilia, Interpretations of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities/Italy 2018.
Interview with Mary Duggan/Scaffold Podcast Episode 24, 2019.
Interview with Mary Duggan/Architecture Masters Podcast Episode 4, 2017.

Research & Academia.
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University of Lancaster 2022 / Porto Academy Summer School, Studio Leader 2021 / University of Kingston 2021 / Univesitat de Girona Summer School 2018 / Brighton University 2015-2019 / Oxford Brookes University 2015-2017 / Bartlett School of Architecture 2014-2015.
Residency Programme, Mary Duggan, 2017-2020.