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Our 10 handpicked architects and interior designers are redefining the structures where we live, work and relax. While this may be not the most definitive list, all of them are truly global in their design aesthetic, approach and practice.
New-age Indian architects and interior designers are increasingly reinterpreting the country’s architectural heritage and juxtaposing it with a global design aesthetic and modern technology to build structures that, hopefully, will tell the history of 21st century India.
While in the overall scheme of things it is difficult to sound enthusiastic about the state of India’s architecture due to what architect Kapil Gupta calls, “a lack of policy initiatives and a credible urban development plan,” slowly, over the years, a handful of contemporary Indian architects and interior designers have been forging a change, creating cutting-edge
architecture and interiors that can rate right up there with global architectural and design practices.
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Their references are myraid and consist of intellectual and, often, professional engagement with works of masters such as Charles Correa, BV Doshi, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, the late Geoffrey Bawa and Joseph Allen Stein.
Architect & Interiors India presents the work of the finest 10 architects or engineers of space in India currently. Their realm of work includes re-planning private and public spaces in a country where the idea of what you do with them is rapidly changing.
All of them have experimented with forms and spaces to develop a design idiom that is unique to them. Along the way, they have picked up national and international accolades, awards and contracts — leaving their mark in Singapore, Dubai and Shanghai.
If the main preoccupation of Kapil Gupta and Chris Lee of Serie Architects is to figure out ways in which they can deal with the congestion of an urban city to effectively use small spaces to create architecture and interiors that are not only contemporary but also radical, Nisha Mathew and Soumitro Ghosh look at the larger question of how they can contextualise their projects in a city or culture they are located in.
If Nuru Karim uses technology to create signature spaces in lyrical, white minimalism, he has also won an award for working with the concept of a spinning wheel, the charkha.
Arjun Mailk, working sans conflict with father, Kamal Malik, uses modern technology to create structures that seem suspended in space, while being connected with nature, still plentiful in some places.
If Shantanu Poredi and Manisha Agarwal’s practice offers integrated solutions that look at urban design, interiors and architecture as an integral whole, Ambrish Arora believes that design cannot be separated from daily living and has to be made approachable for everyone to experience.
If Sandeep Khosla draws inspiration from architects like Geoffrey Bawa and Charles Correa and the way they have interpreted traditional concepts in a modern way, Dominic Dube is inspired by the chaos and colour of India.
Zubin Zainuddin and Krupa Zubin make their presence felt on huge projects, bringing in a design sensibility which works with the optimum utilisation of space, mandatory for the over-peopled urban spaces of India.
Quaid Doongerwala and Shilpa Ranade not only experiment with popular aesthetics using materials that are generally considered kitsch, they also hold on to India’s default energy-efficiency born of austerity rather than abundance.
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