Design and Curation of the Fellowship Exhibition https://studiomatter.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/260609_GDL-Draft.mp4 The Godrej Design Lab 2025 Fellowship Exhibition featured fellowship projects by seix consequential practices – Morii Design, Site Practice, Ajaibghar, TaroCollective, The Vernacular Modern and Tectonic Assembles Studio. The exhibition was held at the Concious Collective in Mmumbai from 11th – 14th December 2025. Godrej […]
Digital Journal on Contemporary Architecture in India Incepted in 2014, thinkMATTER <thinkmatter.in> is a platform for documentation and dissemination of ideas on Architecture in India. Through diverse and multiple formats, we examine the processes, positions, and histories that shape the practice of architecture. By way of curation and archiving of thought, thinkMATTER contributes to the […]
Biannual Journal on Contemporary Architecture A series of journals, [IN]SIDE is published by Matter in collaboration with H & R Johnson (India) on Contemporary Architecture and Interior Design in India. The books chronicle and document ideas and work of some of the most thought-provoking ideas and practices from India. Produced on a high-quality paper […]
Biennial Architecture Award and Critical Review The Merit List [TML] is an initiative by Matter and supported by Takshila Educational Society to recognise projects of critical relevance in the context of contemporary architecture of India. Constituted as a peer-to-peer review and award in 2015. With a two-year cycle, The Merit List seeks to institute […]
Works & Continuities https://studiomatter.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/BOOK-VIDEO_090218.mp4 One of the most prolific architects to have practiced in post-independence India, Brinda Somaya has designed and built more than 250 projects over the span of 40 years of her firm SnK Architects. This monograph is a chronicle and critical reflection on […]
Independent Biennial Conclave FRAME is instituted as an independent, biennial professional conclave on contemporary architecture in India curated by Matter and organised in partnership with Takshila Educational Society. The intent of the conclave is to provoke thought on issues that are pertinent to the practice of architecture in India. Across two editions, the conclave […]
An initiative to create a conversation on the idea of architectural drawings FOLIO is an editorial framework dedicated to architectural drawings and spatial representation. It foregrounds drawing as a critical mode of inquiry, documentation, and communication revealing the conceptual, analytical, and material dimensions of architecture. As an independent site of knowledge, the archive assembles […]
Digitising and Archiving of a Historic Document. In 1985, a landmark exhibition on ‘The Architecture of India’ curated by Charles Correa and commissioned by Pupul Jaykar travelled the world. The exhibition was accompanied by a printed catalog edited by Charles Correa and a multi-screen projections system authored by Imtiaz Dharker. The exhibition and the collaterals […]
Rural Housing Concept Under the PMAY scheme, each unit is entitled to 100 Sq. Meters of land in the villages. The proposal looks at the possibility of creating a set of ‘ingredients‘ and not ‘recipes‘ that will enable the poor to build for themselves. The design looks at five configurations of 100 Sq. M land – […]