Robert Verrijt is a founding partner of Architecture BRIO, established in 2006. Born in the Netherlands, Verrijt received a Master of Science in Architecture at the Technical University of Delft in 2003. Fascinated by Geoffrey Bawa’s architecture, he moved to Sri Lanka shortly after graduating and joined the office of Channa Daswatte, where he assisted on a retrospective exhibition of Geoffrey Bawa and worked on a variety of residential and hospitality projects prior to relocating to Mumbai. Verrijt has taught at various colleges of architecture in Mumbai and lectures extensively in India and abroad. He is one of the founding members of the Bandra Collective. With billionBricks, an NGO committed to eradicating homelessness, he established and leads the bB Design Studio. Verrijt is a registered architect in The Netherlands. In 2020 Architecture BRIO established an office in Rotterdam broadening the practices field of intervention even further.
