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The studio and the network of architects, makers, galleries and engineers Karl works with on each project.
Karl Singporewala RWA RIBA
Karl founded Karl Singporewala + the design bureau (KSdb) in 2024. He is a chartered architect and artist with over 25 years’ experience working on internationally award winning architecture and arts and culture projects. He was elected as a RWA Academician at the Royal West of England Academy in 2023.
He studied undergraduate architecture at De Montfort University Leicester, postgraduate architecture at University of Brighton and completed Practice, Law and Management at The Bartlett, University College London (UCL). In 2025, he was appointed a Fellow of SOAS University of London for his work into material cultures and identity formation within the arts sector.
He currently supports a number of strategic arts and culture organisations throughout the UK, including the RWA Academicians Council, the Exhibitions Advisory Committee and the RWA Architecture Award in Bristol; being an active member in Creative Crawley’s arts renaissance in West Sussex; helping commission new contemporary Zoroastrian art and media for the Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies at SOAS University of London; being a Trustee for Theatre Centre, which commissions new theatre writing nationally for young people and was a founding force for theatre in education in the UK.
Karl has recently judged architecture awards includes Heritage and Retrofit categories for the Architects Journal Architecture Awards and the Building Design Architect of the Year Awards (AYA), as well as the Civic Trust Awards.
His architectural drawings and sculptural maquettes are held in both public and private collections, including the RWA collection, the SOAS Public Collection, and the Princess Hamilton Collection, Bermuda. His current body of artwork linked to South Asian diaspora is represented internationally by Runjeet Singh Gallery.