# The studio

> Collaborative Architecture is an internationally award-winning studio headquartered in Mumbai, India, with a satellite studio in Riyadh, KSA. Our projects evolve out of a meaningful convergence of people, places, culture, climate, ecology and economics.

## Key facts

- Founded: 2004, in Mumbai
- Principals: Lalita Tharani and Mujib Ahmed, co-founders
- Studios: Mumbai Studio, Mumbai, India; Riyadh Studio, Riyadh, KSA
- Disciplines: Architecture, interior architecture, urban design and infrastructure, narrative environments and installations, products and objects, design and behavioral mapping
- Recognition: 60 awards, honors and international shortlists, 30 of them international
- Exhibitions: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York; Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco; The National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
- Research: Collaborative Lab: design research, policy advocacy, epistemologies and architectural cartographies
- Contact: For new projects and collaborations: enquiry@collaborativearchitecture.com; Vendors and suppliers, kindly use the contact form

## Principals

### Lalita Tharani, Co-founder and Principal

Lalita Tharani’s work focuses on how people perceive and use space, on materials and on the adoption of new technology, and she leads material research and technology at Collaborative Lab. She brought the studio’s Black-Box Series of experimental installations to life with Levitation, shown at the DX Show in New Delhi in 2019. Lalita is an advocate for women’s leadership and diversity in architecture. She received the WADe Role Model Award and the AIS Keystone Award in 2016, and she has served on juries and spoken at design events in India and abroad.

### Mujib Ahmed, Co-founder and Principal

Mujib Ahmed brings conceptual depth to the studio’s major projects and competitions and leads complex, multidisciplinary teams across countries. He leads academic research at Collaborative Lab and, with Lalita Tharani and colleagues, contributed to the Design Policy for the State of Kerala, the first such policy adopted by an Indian state. Mujib writes The Collaborative Logs, a monthly newsletter on architecture, research and speculative futures.

## Selected honors

- 2022–23: Peace Pavilion, exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, and the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco
- 2021: National Unity Pavilion, one of the three winning entries, Notions of India international competition
- 2019: The Souk, winner of the Dubai Design Week installation program
- 2017: Cascadia, with J. MAYER H., finalist for the BCDA Iconic Tower, Manila
- 2016: Reflected Topography, winner of OFFICE NEXT, international workspace category
- 2015: Reflected Topography, IES Illumination Awards, Merit Award
- 2017: Finalist, two-stage international competition for the Indian National War Museum, Government of India

## Collaborators

Each project is shaped with an international team. Partners on recent work include:

- Dr. Ardeshir Mahdavi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeshir_Mahdavi)
- Arup (https://www.arup.com/)
- BDP, London (https://www.bdp.com/)
- Buro Happold (https://www.burohappold.com/)
- Dr. Christiane Berger (https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/chbe/)
- Dr. Filippo Osella (https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p102434-filippo-osella)
- Henning Larsen Architects (https://henninglarsen.com/)
- Dr. Hussain Rezai Jorabi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Rezai)
- J. MAYER H. und Partner, Berlin (https://www.jmayerh.de/)
- Prof. K. T. Ravindran (https://correamemoriallecture.com/prof-kt-ravindran-2022/)
- Pek Har (https://verticalurbanism.org/people-profile/pek-har-ng/)
- Rashid Rana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Rana)
- Riyas Komu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyas_Komu)
- Dr. Shibu Raman (https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/ramans)
- Dr. Wafa Alghatam (https://uclm.academia.edu/WafaALGhatam)
- Web Structures, Ramboll, Singapore (https://www.ramboll.com/)
- Yukio Hasegawa (https://sg.bold.pro/my/yukio-hasegawa)