PHILOSOPHY
Who we are
We are a unique design driven studio. It is artisanal in its scale and approach and corporate in its discipline. Over the past 30 years this has allowed us to build a portfolio of rare diversity across scales; from the territorial to the anthropometric; user groups; from rural, communities and NGOs to MNCs and diplomatic missions; sectors and geographies.
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Rohit Shinkre brings 35+ years of experience in practice, education and research. He graduated from the Ecole architecture de Paris- La Défense (now ENSAP-Val de Seine) in 1990 with the Diplôme d’Architecte DPLG. Holds a MArch in Urban and Regional Planning and is currently a Doctoral scholar at the Faculté d’Architecture La Cambre Horta, ULB, Belgium. He is associated with architectural education since 1992- starting from his alma-mater in Paris, France, and then at the Rachana Sansad’s Academy of Architecture in Mumbai where he is currently professor.
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A team of multi-talented architects, designers and project managers at the studio in Mumbai fully equipped with all the required tools . Expert consultants are roped-in as per the scope of the project: landscape, structural and MEP design, transportation, signage, art, acoustics etc.
What we do
We provide high-standards of professional consultancy in urban planning, urban design, master-planning, landscape, architecture, interior design, spatial design, scenography, furniture and product design. We can accompany you for the entire journey from pre-design assessments, preliminary research and ideation, scheme design, enhanced scheme design, pre-construction, design and project management during construction to project commissioning. We will navigate the project through the layers of regulatory, programmatic, technical, financial, social and cultural questions that matter at different stages with clarity, transparency and integrity.
Guiding values
Climate change, ICT and AI and alarming inequalities are the defining challenges of our time and demand radical re-thinking, including in architecture and the built environment. Each project is an opportunity to create a better world; more just, more sustainable, more delightful, more empathetic, more meaningful. Design thinking must be situated in its context and seek a dialogue with all its users and stakeholders not egoistic idiosyncratic gestures. The awareness that the built environment is quite literally the theatre of the everyday lives and events of individuals, groups and communities is essential to our design.