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Maria Leshcheva
Maria Leshcheva, Co-founder and Chief Architect of Better Architecture, is the creative force behind over 100 premium private architecture projects. She leads the studio’s design vision, curating each project from concept to completion with a signature refined minimalist style. Her work is distinguished by a seamless integration with nature and a meticulous attention to detail, resulting in timeless spatial solutions that have earned recognition in international media.
Viktor Vasilev
Viktor Vasilev, Co-founder and Art Director of Better Architecture, is the creative mind behind more than 100 projects spanning private architecture, hospitality, and public spaces. He leads the studio’s visual and conceptual identity, seamlessly bridging design, storytelling, and spatial emotion. Renowned for crafting atmospheric environments, his work is defined by a strong sense of character, balance, and meaning.
Alina Gospodarikova
Alina Gospodarikova is the Co-founder and Lead Designer, responsible for developing design concepts and overseeing the implementation of projects. With experience leading over 50 projects across private residences, interiors, and boutique spaces, she combines aesthetic clarity with deep functional thinking, ensuring that each space not only looks beautiful but also functions seamlessly.
Valery Gospodarikov
Valery Gospodarikov is the Co-founder and Business Development Director at Better Architecture, where he drives strategic growth, communications, and new collaborations. With a background in creative industries, branding, and production, he shapes the bureau’s bold and refined presence. Valery also acts as a connector between architecture and culture, ensuring that projects resonate beyond their physical form.
Practice Ideology
At Better, we design private spaces that live longer than trends and feel deeper than surface aesthetics. We don’t follow the market — we challenge it. Each of our projects is an argument for calm, clarity, and emotional precision in a noisy, overdesigned world.
We work at the intersection of architecture, culture, and digital tools. From the first sketch to construction supervision, we treat the process as a carefully built system — transparent, adaptive, and fast. We use digital tools not as gimmicks, but as a way to sharpen ideas, test scenarios, and design smarter.
We’re obsessed with the details — but we don’t romanticize the craft. What matters to us is how a space feels in real life: how light moves across the floor, how silence wraps a bedroom, how the door handle meets your hand. We work for people who are done with compromises — those who want architectural clarity and emotional comfort in one.
Our team comes from architecture, branding, design, and production. We think in systems, not silos. We treat every project as a story that deserves rhythm, restraint, and a point of view. We’re not in the business of selling square meters. We build presence.
Our long-term goal is to make thoughtful private architecture desirable again. To show that houses can be radical in their simplicity, relevant in their context, and luxurious in how they make you feel. We don’t chase iconic — we build meaningful.
Each project is the result of a rigorous search for what feels right — spatially, emotionally, technically.
We push ourselves on every task, in every drawing, in every square meter — to make it the best version it can be. For us, better is not just a name. It’s a process. It’s a promise.
