The studio believes that India’s vast breadth of socio-cultural environments require multiple modes of practice and process to engage with the country’s diverse contexts. Type, Program, Design and Building processes are subservient to the immediacy of each project’s unique frame of reference. The studio’s approach is to look to context as a repository of latent resources, connecting process with networks of materials and skill. The practice has in the past received the Wallpaper Design Award for Best Public Building, Beazley Architecture Prize, Wienerberger Brick Award, Archdaily Building of The Year 2019, Wallpaper Design Award for House of the Year, as well as the Architectural Review’s Emerging Architecture and the AR Library Commendation Awards. Besides the architectural practice, the studio also runs a not-for-profit sPare that researches issues of urbanization in India. Their research project on forms of affordable housing in Mumbai has been published as a book by the NAi010 (Netherlands) in 2020 and was also exhibited at the Seoul Biennale 2019 Collective City where they curated a small India section for the exhibition as well.
