Creative Practitioner & Educator

photograph: divya cowasji

Siddharth has had the good fortune of being taught by architects Anant Raje, Kurula Varkey, Miki Desai & Neelkanth Chhaya and artist Murali Cheeroth.

Siddharth has worked on several large scale proposals across a wide range of project types: river fronts, forest and urban parks, cultural complexes and master planning. In addition to the upgradation of Taj Ganj: urban revitalization of the three access roads to the Taj Mahal, Siddharth was the project architect at Archohm Consults, Noida, for several high profile public projects. As founding partner of Studio11, he headed the revitalization of the House of CG, Ahmedabad into a heritage hotel in its critical initial stages.

Siddharth’s professional associations include internships with Anupama Kundoo in Auroville and CEARTH in Kochin; and collaborations with DCOOP, Mumbai, Snehal Shah Architect, Ahmedabad, Girish Karnavat, Mangalore, Benthem Crowel, Amsterdam and the Berlin Studios of David Chipperfield Architects & Topotek1.

In 2011 Siddharth created image:medium:actor a course on emotions & creativity which employs graphics, text, collage & theater as mediums and participants’ memories and associations as raw material. The pedagogy predominantly employs the workshop format with emphases on embodied work & conversations.

Besides spatial design, he is involved in graphics and publications through his visual communication design enterprise compoundeye.

Siddharth is a music enthusiast, likes writing and has penned more than a 100 poems. He shares with Sukhmani the artistic direction of The Vessel and is the editor of Textures, Design Pendulum’s curatorial space and publication, respectively.

DESIGN CONSULTANCY

2017 May onwards
Founding Partner Architect, Design Pendulum, New Delhi

2014 July – 2017 April
Senior Consulting Architect, Archohm Consults Pvt. Ltd., NOIDA

2013 August – 2014 June
Founding Partner, XPDS Architects, Ahmedabad

2011 July onward
Founder & Designer, Compoundeye – graphic designs
Founder & Facilitator,
image:medium:actor

2006 June – 2013 May
Founding Partner, Studio11 Architects’ Collaborative, Ahmedabad

PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS

2006 January – April
Ahmedabad Heritage Cell – Indo-French Collaboration

2004 July – October
CEARTH, Cochin

2004 January – April
Christopher Charles Beninger Architects, Pune

2003 June – September
Indian Architect & Builder, Mumbai

1999 August – November
Anupama Kundoo’s Kolum, Auroville

image:medium:actor
workshops on emotions & creativity

2020 September
Lecture Workshop
IIID Faculty Development Program

2020 July & August
4-Part Lecture Workshop
Teacher Training,
The Velammal Trust, Chennai

2019 July & August
The Vessel, New Delhi

2018 September
IDEA – Indus university, Ahmedabad

2018 August
CARE, Tiruchirapalli

2018 July
Christ University – School of Architecture, Bangalore

2018 June
IDEA – Indus university, Ahmedabad

2018 March
Independent Session, New Delhi

2018 January
Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai

2017 August
Avani Design Institute, Kozhikode

2016 August
The Design Village, NOIDA

2015 August
Archohm Consults Pvt. Ltd., NOIDA

2012 August – October
CEPT University, Ahmedabad

2012 January
International Open Elective, NID, Ahmedabad

2011 December
KRVIA, Mumbai

2011 July – September
CEPT University, Ahmedabad