Founded by Akshat Bhatt in 2007, Architecture Discipline is a multi-disciplinary architecture practise based in New Delhi, India.
The firm’s work has been critically acclaimed in India: multiple Indian Institute of Interior Designers (IIID) Awards, an NDTV DAA Architect of the Year Award (2013); citations from Alliance Francaise (2012), Architectural Digest India (2015), and the National Gallery of Modern Art (2015); and a felicitation by the Government of India (2015).
Architecture Discipline’s work highlights the emergence of an architectural expression that is contemporary, yet rooted in a critical understanding of regionalism. The outcome of every commission is determined by a series of design processes, from full-scale mock-ups to long-term material investigations, which strive to develop programmatic & technical flexibility. As a result, all buildings are integrated—from the conceptual framework to tactile experience. The studio is engaged in the design of building typologies such as town halls, hotels, schools, offices, residences, and the public realm through installations.
Architecture Discipline encourages a collaborative, cross-disciplinary workplace environment to foster creativity, dialogue, and engagement. The studio comprises a small team of architects, urban designers, and creatives, led by Principal Architect Akshat Bhatt.
Over the years, the studio has won 40+ international and national awards and accolades and has been covered in 190+ magazines, journals, and newspapers globally. Principal Architect Akshat Bhatt is actively involved in representing the studio’s design philosophy and processes through discourse, at various architecture and design events.
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Every building endeavour must be a responsible solution in structure, services infrastructure, cost & function. It must have a purpose, and above all, dare its own consequences in the environment; but in all of the above, if there is poetry, then perhaps it becomes architecture.
SRDA is a firm that investigates design with a passionate and critical eye grounded in modesty and a thirst for imaginative adventures. At SRDA every project is treated with fervour for exploration and innovation and tested for relevance in physical and social contexts against the land which will cradle it and against the man it is meant for.
SRDA subscribes to the philosophy of the architecture of BLIRS – beautiful, local, indigenous, recycle and small. Poetry draws the distinction between a piece of architecture and a mere building. Local indigenous peoples, their cultivated techniques and traditions and their ancient mastery of material tectonics are core to the execution and inspiration of projects at SRDA. And more importantly, a design must be cognizant of the differentiation between needs and wants, which it must address in the most responsible way, carefully monitoring its violence on the planet.
The firm had begun with a small farmhouse, and an avant-garde portfolio of furniture. SRDA is today commissioned with large-scale architectural and interior design projects across the country and is also the winner of several national awards, with a presence in both international and national publications. Apart from design it also undertakes and promotes research and documentation work.
They believe that every project is an opportunity to understand this world better. The world that is the relationship of people with other people, and of people with their environment. Projects must strive to be the study and response to this very world and if nothing else, act as the lens through which this world can look upon itself.
Samira graduated from the Sir. J. J. College of Architecture, Mumbai in 1986 and soon after completed her Master in Architecture from the University of Illinois, Urbana – Champaign in 1988. While in the States she worked on several projects under Don Wald and Associates based in California, including personal projects of Clint Eastwood. Upon her return to India, she worked with Ratan Batliboi for several years before starting her own partnership firm RLC in 1995.
In 1996 she stepped into the limelight with her solo furniture exhibit ‘Liasons de Formes’. Thereafter in 2000, she founded her solo practice Samira Rathod Design Atelier, which has grown over the years. She was involved in furniture design under Transforme Designs until 2003.
Her passion for writing, theorizing and discussing architecture led her to be the editor and creator of SPADE and founder and director of SPADE INDIA RESEARCH CELL which candidly deliberates, investigates and researches the condition and impact of design in India.
Samira believes in cultivating talent and a strong sense of design in today’s youth and is an adjunct faculty member at the Kamla Raheja Institue of Architecture in Mumbai and has been invited to be a part of juries and panels all over the country and abroad.
May
CALM Studio is a boutique architectural design practice based in Chennai, India working on various scale of developments.
The CALM philosophy embodies a holistic approach to design that incorporates not just architectural design, interior, landscape and master planning but also extends to lighting, graphics, and branding. The studio holds a distinctive speciality in luxury homes, hospitality and commercial developments.
The CALM purpose is to reach out and make an offering that is sincere, whole and revolves totally around a personal experience. The intent is built on a complete understanding of the purpose, person and place, to deliver not just a design solution, but a completely transformed experience accompanied by a revelation to a lifestyle that revolves around the user of the space.
It is an integrated solution envisioned for peace and tranquillity within the environment. This thinking is the core of CALM and it is what gives the holistic design approach its unique personality. CALM Studio is not all about building. The studio has been honoured in Architectural digest’s AD100 of the most influential designers in the country.
Meenakshi Srinivasan: Meenakshi has been associated with SCDA Architects Singapore for nearly a decade. She is also an acclaimed classical Indian dancer.
Dharamraj Subramaniam: Dharmaraj has spent nearly a decade with WOHA Designs, one of Asia’s leading design firms based out of Singapore.
Harshan Thomson: Harshan is passionate about architectural photography and has documented works of leading architects across Asia.
May
BCA Architecture based in Calicut was started by Architect Babu Cherian in 1995. They are known for their creative design solutions that interact with the environment. Babu Cherian has got a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the T.K.M. College of Engineering, Quilon, Kerala. He began his journey with Architect Dinesh Rajeshrike & Associates, Mumbai as an Apprentice Architect.
He describes architecture as the perfect union of functionality and aesthetics, form and function and also that it is a physical manifestation of culture. He believes that we are in an experimental era where the architect is swamped with new materials and techniques and he looks towards the past to build for the future by drawing from traditional Kerala architecture and reinventing it to suit contemporary needs.
He creates architecture that speaks to its surroundings, bringing in nature and skyscape. He draws inspiration from the spectacular land scenario of Kerala and his work emanates a feeling of warmth & timelessness. Versatile and adaptive design solutions coupled with an identical creative excellence, makes their work prominent.
The firm caters to a diverse clientele across public, private and voluntary sectors and their work has featured in a number of interior magazines.
May
Professor Aniket Bhagwat is a third-generation landscape architect practising in Ahmedabad with m/s Prabhaker B Bhagwat, a firm started by his father eight decades ago. Arguably one of the most influential landscape design practices in the country, the firm is known for its research legacy and an unconventional understanding of urban and natural landscapes.
Aniket Bhagwat studied Architecture from Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT), Ahmedabad and pursued his Masters in Landscape Architecture from School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi. Drawing on the depth of his familiarity with the specialisation since childhood, Aniket is known to be an outspoken and stimulating writer, thinker and an academician.
He co-edits and writes for SPADE, a chronicle on design research, theory and narrative, the only peer-driven design magazine in the country. Through his discourse and practice, he strives to bridge the gap between the profession and academics and evolve design through discussion and criticism.
He is of the belief that there are no bad students as such but just inept teachers who mislead students into disarray. His renegade approach to education, research, design and writing has inspired many, helping them take on the conviction, rigour and responsibilities of design.
May
Kham Consultants was established nearly 28 years ago in 1992 by Architect Monica Khosla Bhargava. She is a contemporary architect who has been innovational in the fields of Architecture, Urban Design and Interiors.
She graduated from Jadavpur University in Bachelor of Architecture and furthered her Masters in Architecture with a specialisation in Urban Design from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. This was followed by a Diploma in Architecture and Development from Lund University, Sweden.
The firm derives its name from the Sanskrit word Kham which implies the root sound of space, both mental and physical. The design approach at Kham is strongly driven by ideas and theoretical insights, particularly about the city, habitat, time and detail. Their vast experience in architecture, interior and urban design have created a rostrum for inter-disciplinary elements of built environment professions including climate, landscape, installation art, civil and structural engineering to move towards a sustainable and holistic architecture. They aim to fuse the natural with the man-made and their work displays co-existence of the urban and eco-sensitive environments.
The firm has been bestowed with several national as well as international awards and has been featured in various magazines, newspaper columns and television shows. It is also associated with several social projects aiming at development of culture, society and the city. Monica has been the editor of the International Newsletter Built Environment and was part of the Ministerial Conference at the 3rd World Water Forum, Japan, March 2003 which prepared the Kyoto Declaration on Water.
We are proud to be associated with Kham Consultants by servicing their interior styling requirements.
Apr
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Mar
A Square Designs was established in 1999 by design consultant Ajay Arya. They specialize in interiors for residential and commercial spaces. Transforming urban spaces into visually stunning creations has been their forte and they have conjured modern and contemporary interiors for various properties.
The firm designs and implements interior jobs from scratch to totality. They are known to give intimate attention to “detailing” and believe that interior design is about understanding people and how they live. They feel that the focus of an interior designer should be the client and the client’s lifestyle, not a formulaic, stereotypical design such as “Classic” or “Modern.” Interior design is about the realities of what creates a timeless environment that is attractive and meaningful, which transcends the notion of simply incorporating what is “trendy.”
They believe the art of interior design is a practice that evolves constantly, that becomes enriched with experience and has knowledge about the past, which allows for authority and a sharpened eye for good taste as well as the understanding of how to properly express a client’s vision. The interior design of a project must be personal to the client and the designer must have the flexibility and range of abilities to seamlessly realize the concepts and ideas that create a beautiful, practical and livable space.
Their broad range of experience encompasses interior design for luxurious residential premises, commercial buildings and offices not only locally, but also nationwide. Ajay Arya is recognized as one of Kolkata’s most innovative interior designer and his designs and write-ups featured in many top interior design and news publications, besides this, he is also a columnist for T2 – The Telegraph.
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Feb
Seema Puri & Zarir Mullan have both completed their Government Diploma in Architecture from Rachana Sansad’s Academy of Architecture, Mumbai. They set up their practice, Seema Puri & Zarir Mullan Architects & Interior Designers, in 1994 after gaining an enriching experience from mentors like Hafeez Contractor (Puri) & Talati & Panthaky (Mullan).
Their firm offers a total design solution from conceptual drawings, designs, working drawings, costing to execution. They combine the familiar with the new and use age-old solutions in a technologically savvy structure.
Their core design allows for flexibility of program and accommodation to the environment. Their idea is to crystallise creativity and let the materials take the form of the narrative.
They believe in that the philosophy that design should rise and mould itself from the urban fabric while yet etching itself onto it, architecture, landscape and interior design should blend perfectly so as to melt the barriers between inside and outside and have tried to achieve this in the past few years.
The firm has conceptualized, designed and executed a wide range of architectural and interior projects of diverse nature ranging from Corporate Buildings, Residential Schemes, Showrooms, Cafeterias and Private Bungalows.
They have won numerous awards for Residential Architecture, and have also been featured in many publications and they are also a part of the AD100 list that features the most influential architects and interior designers in the subcontinent.
We are proud to be associated with Seema Puri & Zarir Mullan Architects by servicing their interior styling requirements.