Michael Hsieh, founder and creative director of the studio, is an architect, a designer and a style maker, takes on each project with no specific stylistic agenda but rather with a mindset of achieving a certain lifestyle and ethos manifested from its end users. Michael attended Brown University and received his Master of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design. Known for his keen attention to details, Michael draws inspirations from his global travel experiences, his designs transcend the boundaries between conventional design paradigms and disciplines. He is known for his keen attention to detail, his ability to tackle the design and planning of complex projects at a variety of scales and for his careful attention to client and user needs.
Michael founded studio MH in New York City in 2006, in Shanghai and Hong Kong in 2013. Studio MH is an architectural and interior design atelier with more than 10 years of exclusive and comprehensive global experiences. As the founder and creative director, Michael leads the team to develop and cultivate interdisciplinary visions across the creative fields of architectural design, interior design and product design. The studio has amassed an extensive portfolio in hospitality, high residential, cultural mixed-use as well as corporate commercial projects spanning across major venues including New York, Toronto, Singapore, Japan , Hong Kong, Taiwan, Beijing, Shanghai, and other regions.
Studio MH has garnered numerous design excellence awards, including the International Real Estate Award (IPA), the American Architecture Award, the Interior Design Magazine Best Award of the Year, the AIA Design Award, and the Design Wire Magazine, Top 10 sales center in China design award, TOP 50 designers of WAD luxury residential, and multiple CRIDA awards for excellence and outstanding in F&B design, etc.