Lynette Masai, founder

Trained in Architecture in at the University of Nairobi and later completing a postgraduate program at IAAC, Barcelona focused on additive manufacturing with clay applied to Architecture, Lynette’s career spans over eight years across multidisciplinary studios in both architecture and interior design. Her work is defined by a continuing intrest in how craft, digital fabrication tools, and cultural memory can converge through material.

Through Tope Kavu (Swahili for dry mud), she explores mud as a medium for sustainable design and meaning—drawing from Afro-cultural influences, natural forms, and artisanal craft making practices complimented by digital fabrication. The studio’s ethos centers around emotional durability, careful material stewardship, and reclaiming mud as a vehicle for beauty, function, and cultural memory.

Lynette’s practice exists at the intersection of architecture, interior design, and craft: inviting a conversation between tradition, technology, and design.

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