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Regionalism and the Modern Kenyan Home
The practice grew out of a thesis on how regionalism shapes built form — the idea that good architecture is rooted in a specific climate, culture and ground rather than imported wholesale from elsewhere. That research never stayed academic; it became the way we work.
A modern Kenyan home, in this view, is not a foreign template with a local address. It responds to its hillside in Tigoni or its coastline in Malindi; it borrows from how people here already gather, cook and rest; it uses materials that make sense for the place and weather honestly over time.
Regionalism is sometimes mistaken for nostalgia. We treat it as the opposite — a discipline that keeps contemporary architecture grounded, so that a building reads as unmistakably of its place while still belonging firmly to its moment.