Msoma Architects

Msoma hosted Majlis Conversations as part of POST PRESS

A wonderful weekend of conversations, ideas and exchange, Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Majlis Conversations and helped make the weekend special. It was a pleasure to gather, share perspectives and discuss how hybridity influences art & architectural practice.

A very special thank you to my wonderful guests Lubna Chowdhary, Krish Nathaniel, Fahad Malik and Adam Nathaniel Furman for their generous contributions and inspiring conversations. And, of course, thank you to everyone who came, listened, questioned and shared. It was a joy to have you with us.

Msoma is featured in New Architects 5, a publication showcasing the work and ideas of emerging architectural practices. We’re delighted to be included alongside a selection of contemporary practices shaping the future of architecture and design. Three of our recent projects are featured: our Cosmo-Georgian interiors; the redesign of the Grade I Listed interiors of Somerset House; and our exhibition designs for Garden Futures at V&A Dundee and More than Human at the Design Museum. Both exhibitions are exemplars of sustainable exhibition design, setting new standards for reuse and the use of biodegradable materials in exhibition settings.

New Architects 5 is the fifth volume in a series published by the Architecture Foundation, profiling emerging architectural talent in the UK. The book will feature Msoma’s work alongside that of 93 other firms established in the last decade and is scheduled for publication in summer 2026.

A Story of South Asian Art opens at the Royal Academy of Arts from 31 October 2025 to 24 February 2026 - visit now! Our exhibition design translates artistic philosophy into space through a decolonial and decarbonised approach. Using low-tech, bio-based materials such as clay, hemp, and natural pigments - built by The White Wall Company - the design considers cultural continuity within Indian Modernism. The exhibition centers Mrinalini Mukherjee and her circle, who in the context of the Baroda School in postcolonial India, insisted that modernity must grow from indigenous roots, drawing from the earth rather than imported paradigms.

Bushra Mohamed, Director at Msoma Architects, will be speaking at ESALA, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture this Friday, 7 November at 5pm as part of the lecture series 'Dialogues in Motion: Architecture Through the Lived Experience'.

Bushra will share her career journey, from her formative studies to leading Msoma, and reflect on the studio’s recently completed and ongoing projects. The lecture explores how lived experience, material practice, hybridity and decolonial thinking shape Msoma’s approach to contemporary architecture.

📍 University of Edinburgh - All are welcome to attend.

Msoma have designed More than Human at the Design Museum, Graphics by Kellenberger-White. Opens 11 July - 05 October 2025. More info here.

Garden Futures: Designing with Nature is now open at the V&A Dundee. Msoma was the exhibition design lead, working with Boris Meister (Graphics), Beam (Lighting) and Charles Staton-Jones (AV).

We have written a profile on Kenyan architects Cave_bureau for the Design Museum's Future Observatory journal entitled Design in Deep Time.

Bushra Mohamed and Krish Nathaniel delivered a walking tour around central London on behalf of the Architecture Foundation highlighting key markers of South Asian history in the built environment. Their South Asian history map is available here.