About us
AVD Architects is a design-led residential architecture practice based in West London. Since 2010, we have worked with private clients across London and the surrounding areas on home extensions, loft conversions, whole-house refurbishments and new-build homes.
We help clients turn their ideas and practical requirements into clear, carefully considered designs. Our involvement can begin with an initial assessment of what may be possible and continue through concept design, planning, technical design and construction-stage support.
Our ethos
We believe the spaces we inhabit do more than meet practical needs: they help shape everyday life. Light, proportion, materials, views and the connections between spaces can influence how we feel, how we use a home and how we spend time together. Thoughtful architecture can therefore make a real and lasting contribution to our quality of life.
Each project is developed in response to the people who will live there, the existing property and its setting. Our aim is to create homes that are not only practical and comfortable, but also distinctive and inspiring—places with their own character that enrich everyday experience over time. This ambition is balanced from the outset with the realities of planning, budget and construction.
AVD is built around a core team, allowing clients to work directly with the people designing and coordinating their project.
Network of specialists
Where additional expertise is required, we collaborate with a trusted network of structural engineers, mechanical and electrical (M&E) engineers, arboriculturists, landscape designers, surveyors, planning consultants and other specialists. Many of these working relationships have developed over several years, allowing us to bring the right expertise into each project at the right stage.
Design Team
Founder & Lead Architect
Akos Doboczi
MSc Architect RIBA, ARB
Akos is a RIBA Chartered Architect who has worked across London and the surrounding areas since 2010. With more than twenty years of architectural design experience, he now leads AVD Architects, a design-led practice focused on private residential projects.
During his career, Akos has been involved in the founding and co-founding of a number of architectural practices and design studios, each focused on a particular sector of the industry. AVD was established specifically for private residential architecture, while through other practices and partnerships he has worked on larger-scale projects for residential, commercial and industrial developers.
Reflecting this breadth, his experience spans a wide range of building types, including private homes, larger housing developments, hotels, office buildings, educational buildings, care homes, and commercial and light-industrial projects. His work ranges in scale from small alterations to individual houses through to major residential and non-residential developments.
He believes an architect should be able to think at every scale: from furniture and architectural details, through the scale of a family home, to large, complex public buildings and the wider urban context.
Whatever its function or scale, Akos approaches every project with professional humility and an ambition to achieve the highest possible design quality, working in close collaboration with the client throughout. At AVD, this means bringing the knowledge gained over a wide-ranging architectural career to the highly personal task of creating or transforming a home.
Earlier career and professional background Before establishing his own practices and partnerships, Akos spent the early part of his London career working at an architectural studio. During this period, he also took part in international design competitions, winning first prize in a prestigious competition in ReykjavÃk, Iceland. This international competition work broadened his perspective, allowing him to engage with design challenges across different cultural, climatic and economic contexts. Before moving to the UK, he spent the first eight years of his professional career in Budapest, working on large-scale projects of significant urban and civic importance. Budapest, where he trained and began his career, is widely recognised for its exceptionally rich architectural heritage and strong design culture. Akos studied architecture there under some of Hungary’s leading practising architects and teachers, prominent representatives of the country’s architectural tradition. This rigorous professional environment shaped his education and early career, providing a foundation he brought with him to London in 2010 and continues to draw upon in his work today.
Architectural Designer
Noemi Boros
MSc in Architecture and Engineering
Noemi is an architectural designer with more than a decade of professional experience across architecture, interior design and bespoke furniture design. As a member of AVD’s core team, she contributes broad design and technical expertise to the practice’s private residential projects.
Her residential experience includes high-end private homes and apartment buildings, with her involvement extending from concept design through planning to technical design. Having worked at scales ranging from buildings and interiors to individual elements such as furniture, lighting, windows and doors, she views each home as a coherent whole - how its spaces connect and feel, and how its materials and details support everyday life.
Noemi combines a sensitive design approach with an organised and technically rigorous way of working. She has extensive experience working on BIM-based projects, including establishing project standards, templates and work environments, developing and reviewing technical information, and coordinating design details with consultants, manufacturers and specialist suppliers. At AVD, this experience contributes to a careful and coherent process in which creative ideas are developed with close attention to technical detail and buildability.
Earlier career and professional background Before joining AVD, Noemi worked as a design project manager, overseeing the local design team and liaising with project stakeholders during the development of a next-generation IKEA store. The role strengthened her ability to manage complex design information, project phasing and technical development. During this period, she also contributed to technical due diligence studies for office, retail, logistics and industrial properties. Previously, she worked at a Budapest architectural studio on high-end residential and housing projects, as well as hotels, educational and exhibition spaces, and architectural competitions, including a residential project that won multiple international awards. It was here that she developed much of her experience in taking architectural projects from early design ideas through to detailed planning and construction information. In the first half of her career, Noemi worked across architecture, interior design and bespoke furniture design and detailing on a range of high-end residential and small-scale institutional projects. She also gained professional experience while living in Ireland, contributing to the development of sustainable and timber-frame buildings, planning and tender documentation, heritage-building surveys and site inspections.