Collaborative Architecture

Collaborative Architecture is an architecture and design studio based in Mumbai, with a design centre in Calicut (Kozhikode). Co-founders Lalita Tharani and Mujib Ahmed lead it.

The studio works on homes, hospitality, retail, offices, education, civic buildings, temporary pavilions and adaptive reuse. Each project draws on research into materials, climate, ecology, culture and how people behave in space. A research arm, Collaborative Lab, handles material studies and new technology. Its work includes Reflected Topography, an office for BGRT in Bangalore, and The Souk, a timber pavilion in Dubai. It has also entered many international competitions.

Of note

• Its Indian National War Museum entry, a finalist in the 2017 competition, was shown in Cooper Hewitt's 'Designing Peace' exhibition in 2022.
• Reflected Topography (BGRT, Bangalore) won the Office Next international workspace award in 2016.
• Finalist, with J. Mayer H. und Partner, in the 2017 BCDA Iconic Tower competition for Bonifacio City, Manila.
• Finalist in the 2018 Kennedy Center competition for the Israeli Lounge, Washington DC.