Murtaza Nooruddin is a graduate of the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, where he was awarded a distinction in thesis. After graduation he worked with Tariq Hasan for a year before he co-founded Open Door Design Studio in 2014. He currently teaches design studio at the University of Karachi and has previously taught at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. He was named as one of Pakistan’s top six emerging architects by Design United in 2020. Murtaza draws from the everyday life of people and things and believes that architecture shall be grounded in things that hold essential value.