Julian de Metz
From Things I've Learnt by Mix Interiors
January 28, 2026 · 38 min · Season 2 · Episode 11
About this episode
Julian de Metz discusses his architectural philosophy and approach to heritage buildings with Harry McKinley.
Julian de Metz is founding director of multi-award-winning architecture practice dMFK. A third-generation architect, his design philosophy strongly emphasises human experience, sensitivity to heritage buildings and evolution rather than pure restoration. Believing that building and spaces to speak today, without erasing the past, his ethos is one of ‘reinventing and altering existing buildings fearlessly’. He joins Mix Interiors Managing Editor Harry McKinley to discuss how every probl...
People in this episode
Host: Harry McKinley
Guest: Julian de Metz
Topics covered
- architecture
- design philosophy
- heritage buildings
- human experience
- building evolution
Keywords
- architecture
- design
- heritage
- human experience
- dMFK
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Organizations: dMFK, Mix Interiors
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