ARCHITECTURE FUNDAMENTALLY IS AN ART FORM...
Architecture fundamentally is an art form, which is interpretive... Hence intellectual, cultural and contemporary discourses in the global scenario that could influence any aesthetic expressive medium would automatically influence architecture too. But, for architecture to be relevant, it has to be contextual. There lies the biggest challenges and the opportunities.
The push back on homogeneous, universal architecture is not just an Indian condition. Luis Barragan, Alvaro Siza, Carlo Scarpa, Zumthor, Ando, Wang Shu, are a few, who successfully fought off this homogeneity and shown that architecture could be placed in contemporary times, while rooted in their context and immediate communities. These critical regionalists did have some resolution to this dilemma of modernity that uprooted the vernacular and indigenous craft.
Projects coming out of the studio are heavily bent towards formal spatial explorations; how the Avant Grade innovations could address the context, the climate, the economics, the end user, etc. The studio has been positioning itself with a global outlook since its inception and has been collaborating with international design studios at the design level, for projects in as well as outside India.
Stacked tectonics has been featured in the state of architecture exhibition under the emerging India section. Our finalist entry for Indian National War Museum addressed the context and historic fabric of Lutyne’s Delhi in a successful way for it to be shortlisted in the 2 stage international competition. For the BCDA Iconic Tower, Manila Philippines, Collaborative teamed with Juergen Mayer in their shortlisted finalist entry.