Studio 52 is an award-winning architecture and design studio founded by Michele Manzella and Ben Dudek, working across architecture, installation, sculpture, and product design. With over three decades of combined experience, the studio draws on a background developed within internationally renowned practices, contributing to projects ranging from high-end residential homes to large-scale towers and international developments.

Working across scales, Studio 52 approaches each project through a consistent focus on structure, material, and spatial experience. Central to the studio’s work is an ambition to create a sense of theatre, introducing moments of drama, performance, and presence within both objects and spaces.

Through a process of making, testing, and refinement, the studio develops work that is both precise and expressive, where detail and overall composition are resolved together. Objects and architecture are conceived not only to function, but to perform, shaping atmosphere, capturing attention, and defining the experience of a space.

Across all projects, Studio 52 aims to create work that is quietly distinctive, materially grounded, and enduring, bringing people, objects, and space into a considered and expressive relationship.