As of January 2025, Maltese architecture studio AP Valletta has strengthened and diversified its leadership team, promoting seven of the studio’s directors to partners and associate partners.

AP Valletta has announced seven new partners as part of its leadership team, each of whom will work alongside founders David Felice and Konrad Buhagiar, together with Chris Mifsud, who has joined as a non-executive partner, replacing former director Reinhold Karner.

In their previous roles as Design Directors, Charles Sciberras, Danica Cachia Mifsud, Rosanne Asciak, Simone Vella Lenicker and Rory Apap Brown, were responsible for running the studio’s project teams. Erica Giusta, as Director of Innovation, steered the studio’s research into heritage innovation as well as its expansion overseas, while Jacques Borg Barthet, as Director of Practice, oversaw project management and coordination of urban projects. Their promotion ensures the leadership remains closely tied to the studio team.

Founding Directors David Felice and Konrad Buhagiar said: “AP Valletta’s evolution has always been about sticking to its principles. New leadership means more incisiveness and rounded thinking around those principles. We have all been working together for years, shaping our shared ideas for the built environment. It’s a moment of celebration that we are now entering this new chapter of the practice’s lifespan together.”

AP Valletta was founded 34 years ago and has always been based in Valletta, Malta’s capital. In its longstanding role as an incubator for thinking, writing, speaking and designing, AP Valletta remains focused on addressing this century’s most pressing urban problems through all its projects. The practice works to understand how urban life impacts human progression, and how the architectural profession is best placed to shape it.

About AP Valletta

AP Valletta’s vision isto create an Architecture that is a place-maker, a container of meaning, a catalyst for the creation of kinship, a fabricator of myth and a producer of narratives. AP Valletta is a Valletta-based team of architects, designers, and researchers. The practice has operated for over 30 years and has continuously expanded its field of activity.

AP Valletta provides a wide range of services including Architecture Design, Urban Design and Master Planning, Restoration Theory and Practice, Sustainable Architecture, Structural and Civil Engineering services, Interior Design, Strategic Real Estate Consultancy, Graphic Design, Education and Publishing.