Led by Michael K. Chen and based in New York City, MKCA is an architecture practice providing innovative and superbly crafted work for clients seeking thoughtful and well-considered design. We have experience designing and building at a diverse range of scales and bring an ultra-refined sensibility and attention to detail to projects ranging from individual micro apartments to entire buildings. We provide full-service, comprehensive architecture and design services encompassing architecture, interior design, event design, branding, product design, furniture design, and specialty fabrication.

MKCA has developed a reputation for excelling at complex urban projects, and are adept at synthesizing multiple functions, systems, and constituencies into elegant and often beguilingly simple works. Our approach and capabilities are at the leading edge of analysis, design, manufacturing, and construction, but we strive to produce exceptional experiences, beautifully choreographed spaces, and works that are unexpected, hyper-useful, intelligent, and full of delight. We are an intensely collaborative, creative, serious, and congenial office of architecture die hards. In addition to our professional work, we are active in academic circles and in professional organizations, and we maintain a broad and robust network of collaborators and compatriots.

In March of 2020, MKCA co-founded Design Advocates, a network of over 200 small firms and individuals collaborating on pro-bono projects, research, and advocacy to serve the public good and help disadvantaged communities and nonprofits adapt their spaces for the COVID-19 and beyond. D/A is working on  projects that serve public schools, libraries, the homeless, immigrant populations, the recently incarcerated, local restaurants, and others, and is committed to putting design excellence into service toward equality and the common good.