UHA appoints Zachary Dominitz to lead India operations

MUMBAI: International architecture and design firm UHA has named Zachary Dominitz as senior director and head of India, signalling a fresh phase of global expansion powered by sustainability, design innovation and sharper business strategy.

The London-based studio, now nearing its fifteenth year, has spent more than a decade shaping skylines across India. With new work emerging in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, the appointment of Dominitz marks a turning point for the firm as it strengthens its global footprint.

Founder and managing partner Jonas Upton-Hansen said Dominitz’s arrival blends business sense with creative empathy. He noted that the firm’s designers will now be able to deepen their focus on architecture while Zachary takes charge of growth and team development.

Dominitz brings a global résumé spanning the US, UK, Australia and Argentina. With an MBA from London Business School and a background in brand-building at Siegel+Gale, sustainability leadership at TerraCycle and previous roles spanning communications, agency leadership and even the Clinton White House, he enters UHA with a blend of strategic and creative firepower.

Having previously worked with UHA on its long-term roadmap, Dominitz said the firm’s human-centred design language and tight-knit team made the opportunity an ideal match. Co-founder Ricardo Mateu added that ongoing work across Argentina, Mexico, Oman, Taiwan and Thailand made this the right moment to streamline systems and anchor leadership in Mumbai.

The leadership shift accompanies a broader restructuring that empowers regional directors, expands UHA’s landscape and interior design capabilities and moves talent across offices to support the firm’s multi-nodal working model.

UHA currently has more than sixty active projects across three continents, spanning Mediterranean villa communities, landmark towers in New Delhi and Mumbai, a prize-winning masterplan in Moscow and Mexico’s first Leed-certified residential development. Its roots in India run deep, with long-standing projects in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Bengaluru and NCR.

Dominitz said India’s energy lies as much in its people as in its rapidly evolving market. He described the country’s design community as confident, ambitious and ready to shape new urban stories. Joining that momentum, he said, felt less like an arrival and more like stepping into a narrative already in motion.