misc partners
2019 - 2024
MISC Partners was an architectural and design practice founded by Kristen Mimms Scavnicky (mi) and Ryan Scavnicky (sc) that focused on translating cultural narratives, material craft, and contextual analysis into built architectural projects. The studio approached architecture as a mediator between memory, identity, and everyday use, foregrounding surface articulation, pattern, and material expression as tools for spatial storytelling within the urban environment.
Operating at the scale of buildings and public-facing infrastructure, MISC Partners produced architectural work that bridged conceptual inquiry with real-world constraints. Projects such as the Hancock Garage rainscreen installation in Cleveland exemplified the studio’s approach—using custom patterning and material strategies to embed cultural reference and visual rhythm into utilitarian structures. Through this work, the practice demonstrated how architectural surfaces could operate simultaneously as functional systems and narrative devices.
MISC Partners functioned as a platform for testing how design research could be translated into built form, establishing a foundation for Mimms Scavnicky’s ongoing investigations into surface, material ethics, and cultural expression. The practice laid critical groundwork for her later research-driven studios, providing direct experience in realizing conceptually rigorous ideas within professional architectural contexts.
Hancock Garage Rainscreen Project