Electric Architects is an architecture and urban planning studio founded in 2011 in Moscow, Russia, by architect and urban planner Marianna Karapetyan. In 2017, the studio moved to Yerevan, Armenia, to develop the "Dépot" project, an urban innovation neighbourhood they conceived.
Marianna Karapetyan is an Armenian architect and urban planner with a master's degree in industrial architecture from the Moscow Institute of Architecture and a master's degree in "Housing and Urbanism" from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Throughout her career, she has worked on projects of diverse scales, from furniture design to large-scale urban developments.
Karapetyan is the curator of the Armenian Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2025, with the project entitled "Microarchitecture Through AI: Making New Memories with Ancient Monuments."
Currently, Electric Architects has a multidisciplinary team of 28 professionals, including architects, interior and graphic designers, engineers, and managers. The studio is led by Marianna Karapetyan as CEO and Karen Badalian as artistic director.
In recent years, the studio has focused primarily on residential development in Yerevan, exploring typological approaches to the formation of housing units and communities. Its projects range from large-scale urban projects to the organization of temporary festivals.
