Maggie Ma Kingsley graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is an architect with both commercial and community experience in practice. Since 2010, she has been focusing her career on social projects, specialising in people-based, socially sustainable design. In 2013, Maggie and Mark Kingsley set up Domat, a not-for-profit architectural practice to realise contextual projects in Hong Kong and Mainland China through design, research and implementation.
Maggie’s works attempt to provide creative architectural design with social sustainability, focusing on the relationship with people and exploring housing issues, habitation and educational spaces. Through Domat, Maggie has completed several rural village educational projects in Mainland China and is working with underprivileged communities in Hong Kong, including improving the living conditions of families in sub-divided homes, and research on community spaces in old areas facing urban renewal. Her low-income housing project has received local and international recognition in both architecture and social science fields.
Domat was a finalist of Architectural Review (AR) Emerging Architecture Awards in 2018. During 2010-2013, Maggie was executing several award-wining projects with Rural Urban Framework, including Angdong Hospital (RIBA Award for International Excellence 2016), House for All Seasons (AR House Award 2012), and Tongjiang Recycled Brick School.
