Braden Caldwell has been design lead on several high-end townhouse and brownstone projects integrating modern additions and building systems with delicate, historic contexts, and detailed interior design and detailing. As an Associate, Braden manages project teams within the studio and provides technical, aesthetic, and client service oversight. Among his responsibilities, he has also spearheaded much the office’s micro-housing work and research as well as the development of MKCA’s interior design practice area. He has lead the completion of several complex, fabrication-intensive, and micro projects, including MKCA’s  Pied à Mer,  5:1 Apartment, and Attic Transformer projects, as a brownstone in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn which have been published extensively in print and online. Braden earned a B.Arch from Pratt Institute.

Natasha Harper has been the project lead for a number of projects with collaborative detail-oriented integration of architecture and interior design, including MKCA’s first health care project, a community clinic for Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, and numerous high end residential projects including the Watershed House  and the Carnegie Hill Apartment. As an Associate, Natasha manages project teams within the studio and provides technical, aesthetic, and client service oversight.

Natasha came to MKCA with extensive experience with Diller Scofidio + Renfro and the Rockwell Group, developing a high rise hotel and commercial tower for the Hudson Yards redevelopment, and experience as a senior designer and project manager at Roy Co. and at Open Shop Studio where she was responsible for numerous high end hospitality and commercial projects. She earned a B. Arch from Pratt Institute and an M.Arch from Harvard.

Rachel Lefevre studied architecture at Washington University and Yale, where she received an M. Arch and was the Teaching Fellow for Environmental Design, providing instruction on energy modeling and environmental analysis. Prior to joining MKCA, Rachel worked in small firms in St Louis and with Anthony Acciavatti at Yale on an exhibition at the Seoul Biennale of research on the Ganges River Basin.

Bachelors of Architecture, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City
Masters of Architecture, Yale University

B.Arch Tecnólogico de Monterrey

M.Arch Harvard University

B.Arch, Pratt Institute

BA Architecture, Washington University

M.Arch, Harvard University

With a professional background in furniture and art conservation as well as in museum administration and marketing, Katie manages logistics and procurement at MKCA. Katie received a B.A in Art History at the University of Central Florida and a certification in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Arts at New York University.

Archibald “Archie” Chen-Beck Wiener is a red dapple miniature dachshund, and a design trainee at MKCA. Born in Buffalo, he moved to New York City to join MKCA when he was ten weeks old. We’re pretty sure he’s an aesthete of the first order, and a prodigy. He Instagrams at @archibaldwiener.

Milo Chen-Beck, Top Dachshund Emeritus watched over the early years of the practice, before retiring to puppy heaven in 2017. A lover of hard rubber toys, fake fur, and stuffed lobsters, he served for many years as food taster-in-chief at MKCA, reflecting his upbringing in the Meatpacking District and Chinatown and his Californian, Southwestern, Chinese, and Jewish family background.