Collaborative Architecture is an international design practice based in Mumbai with design centers in Beijing and Calicut. Led by Lalita Tharani and Mujib Ahmed, they are driven to create highly sensitive, poetic, and contemporary projects within budget limits through innovation and pursuit of quality design. They achieve satisfaction through challenging projects and happy clients, rather than through drudgery or incompetence that can be common in the profession. Tharani and Ahmed admire contemporaries who push boundaries, like Zumthor, Scarpa, Siza, Unstudio, Steven Holl, and Jurgen Mayer.

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COLLABORATIVE ARCHITECTUREisaninternationaldesign practice,basedinMumbai,havingdesigncentresinBeijingandCalicut.Thestudioiscreditedwithdesigningsomeofthemost
innovativeprojectslocatedinIndiaandiscurrentlycollaboratingwiththerenownedBerlin-basedpracticeJHMayer,headedbyJürgenMayer.Thefirmhaswon33awardssinceitsinception
in2002,11outofthembeinghighlycovetedinternationalrecognitions. COLLABORATIVE’sprojectshavebeenextensivelypublishedinnationalandinternationalprintandwebmedia.
Mujib Ahmed Lalita Tharani
LalitaTharaniandMujibAhmedaredrivenbyinnovationandceaselesspursuitofqualityindesigntocreate
projects,whicharehighlysensitive,poetic,andcontemporarywithinthebudgetlimit.Everyprojectisan
exploration,goingbeyondthefunctionalbrief,creatingasymbiosisofpeople,places,culture,climate,
economyandcollaborativeeffortsofrelateddisciplines.“Architectureisoneofthemostdemanding
professionstobein.Drudgeryformostpart,incompetentinmostcases,resistanttochange,andtoalarge
extentPatrondependentforitsfinaloutcome,”saysAhmed,“Thesearenotthepreconditionforaperfect
profession.”TowhichTharaniadds,“ButarchitectsdonothavetotakeLSDordovipassanatoachieve
nirvana.Weachievethehighsandthetranquilitythroughagreatprojectandahighlysatisfiedclient.And
thatisthebestpartoftheprofession.”
Theyaregreatadmirersofalltheircontemporarieswhopushtheenvelopeofinnovationandtesttheir
designlimits.SomepeoplefromtheirlonglistareZumtor,Scarpa,Siza,Unstudio,StevenHoll,Jurgen
Mayer,etc.“Welovetoworkwithlight,white,ambivalence,associativeconnotations,fragmentsand
disruptivetechs,”theysmile.
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