The sketches in this file were made during a sketching workshop with Professor D. K. Ching in Mylapore, Chennai, India.

I made a series of postcard and A4 sized watercolor paintings during the evolution of the concept for an architecture project. These paintings were made during the InArch ADV (Advanced Architecture) Summer program at UC, Berkeley.

This is part of the work done for design research at Studio Mumbai, Mumbai, India. It is documentation of an old shopfront with a residence on the upper floor in Mumbai. This is from 2017.

Art made at Studio Mumbai, Mumbai, India. I was part of the team that put together works for the Chicago Art Biennale and other Art exhibits in 2016-2017. View works to see some of the photographs I took to document the art that I helped make.

I made a series of sketches for the MPavilion Project by Studio Mumbai in Melbourne, Australia, during my internship in Mumbai, India.

A place for everybody to rest and recuperate.

Photographs of Charles Correa’s Architecture.

Photograph taken somewhere in North India.

In between Art and Architecture, myth and reality, legend and life.

Images from somewhere in North India.

When landscapes create art merely just by being

Ancient Indian architecture is inspiring for its subtle use of ornament, geometry, and vibrant use of colors that are charming and favorable to the modern palette.

This inexpensive toy sold in tourist spots in India uses ingenious use of geometry to create 3 dimensional forms that collapse back into a flat surface.

A sketch made during my Internship at Studio Mumbai Architects, Mumbai, Ahmedabad.

Remnants of old temples put together to create spaces that have surreal harmony. One material all throughout, and there’s something beautiful about that.

The depth that severe light in the tropics create to cast much-needed cool shadows is indeed cause for celebration. An image of the studio at Studio Mumbai in Mumbai, India. What you see suspended over the courtyards is the Tazia, a stickframe structure made of karvi or bamboo, and traditionally carried on processions. Here, the Tazias were created as part of Art Installations for Biennalas and Design Research.

An image from the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.

Most of the time spent in studio as an intern involved sketching for various purposes. It allows one to be in tune with an indescribable knack for proportion, an easy manifestation of one’s understanding of scale, and one’s absorption of all the beauty and harmony around them.

A photograph of Bombay taken during my time there in 2016-2017.

Miniatures made to populate the physical model of the gallery for the Art shows that Studio Mumbai presented work in.

A miniature inspired by the work around gargoyles in the studio at Studio Mumbai, Mumbai, India.

A photograph of Mumbai taken during 2016-2017.

We made miniature bricks in the studio, at Studio Mumbai, Mumbai, India. I used one such brick to carve a space - a pool accessed by a ramp. This was a conceptual model.

Carving on a wax-cast tablet. It is an art in itself, to etch on surfaces that mean something to the places the etchings carve in our imagination as we see these drawings.