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Rick Mather Architects is being wound up and replaced by a new practice four years after the death of its founder.

The firm鈥檚 partners, Gavin Miller and Stuart Cade, are setting up a new practice called MICA 鈥� after the first two letters of their surnames 鈥� employing the 50 staff currently working for Rick Mather (RMA) and based in the same Camden offices.

The new company will complete the last remaining RMA projects while simultaneously working on its own buildings, landscapes and strategic masterplans. The aim is to broaden the range of projects the practice tackles, said Miller and Cade.

Miller said: 鈥淚t has been an honour to be part of Rick Mather Architects and help steer the company through the projects over the years. However, we feel that we have reached a tipping point where the portfolio is representative of a new design team with its own identity.

鈥淢ICA benefits from the same long-standing and highly dedicated team of 50, previously of Rick Mather Architects, and thus draws on the same archives, history, professional knowledge and expertise.鈥�

An archive of RMA projects will be created by MICA 鈥渢o establish the legacy鈥� of Mather and celebrate the origins of the new practice.

Stuart Cade said the move would 鈥渘ot compromise the integrity鈥� of a practice built up over 40 years.

He said: 鈥淩ick鈥檚 dedication to designs of the highest quality has left a huge mark on the team and we have spent the last four years continuing this ethos.

鈥淭he new projects will demonstrate how this approach can be delivered from a city-wide level down to the finest details.鈥�

MICA would operate an analytical and strategic approach to complex projects, producing architectural designs that cover every scale of the profession, he added.

The team is currently working on projects such as a large-scale, cultural mixed-use masterplan at Croydon; strategic London-wide masterplanning for TfL; complex heritage sites at King鈥檚 College London, Lincoln鈥檚 Inn, and Jesus College, Oxford; two landscape and public realm schemes in Lancaster; and a new square at Centre Point.

Rick Mather set up his practice in 1973 and has been responsible for many high-profile schemes such as the Ashmolean and Keble College in Oxford and the Wallace Collection and Dulwich Picture Gallery in London as well as a masterplan for the South Bank.

He died in 2013 from the cancer mesothelioma.