Syed Fawad Hussain is founder and principal at Metropolitan Studio of Architecture (MSA), a practice based in Lahore, Pakistan, with a recently-incepted office in Dubai as well. Established in 2009, MSA is a studio of architects, interior designers, visualisers, and thinkers involved in research and design activities. MSA has won numerous international awards including Prix Versailles Paris (continental winner) 2018, International Architecture Award 2019 on Housing and Interior Design, and two Eurasian Prize Gold Awards 2018 and 2020, Ekaterinburg, Russia. The practice was also nominated as one of the most influential names in architecture and design by Architectural Digest in 2016. In the same year, MSA also published its first architectural monograph ‘Assemblage’. Syed Fawad Hussain received his degree in Philosophy in 1997 and Bachelor of Architecture in 2002. He is an associate professor at Institute for Art and Culture (IAC) Lahore. At MSA, he leads MSA-RI (Research Initiative) and MSA-EDL (Experimental Design Lab), two wings of MSA that are involved in independent research and experimentation, and at the same time feeding their findings to the MSA design studio. Hussain has presented the studio work on various international platforms including 100-plus forum at Ekaterinburg, Russia, and 2A Forum Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
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