Architect x Client = Architecture

Text by: Ayeza Qureshi
Photography by: Farah Mehboob

Architecture and the Architect
Does size matter? Perhaps a cheeky question – but is it?

Living in a society where we are constantly judging success against a yard stick – our architecture is an accurate reflection of our value system. For the most part, an understanding of our needs is over shadowed by wants and aesthetics skewed by fashion.

 

Of course there is balance – good healthy balance that makes the dialogue between need and wants, aesthetics and fashion, inspiring and challenging for an architect. 

 

The product of one such encounter is a 500 sq yd residence for Sohail and Farah, designed by Architect Khadija tul Kubra. 

 

Khadija has an extensive portfolio in residences, from ASA, where she worked for several years and Design Options, a studio she co-created with Moyena Niazi. Her portfolio articulates a keen eye for details and a delightful choreography of spatial experience. 

 

Khadija’s design philosophy is to ‘work very closely with the requirements of the client, and what delights them to generate design appropriate to the needs of the users’. In line with her philosophy, each project is wonderfully unique to the client and context, and sensitive and responsive to the design brief.