Studio Library

The studio library is conceived as an academic and reflective core of the architectural practice, a place where design is informed by reading, questioning, and long-term inquiry rather than quick references alone. Curated over time, the collection brings together foundational texts in architecture, urbanism, and design alongside writings on Indian spatial traditions, city histories, photography, art, philosophy, literature, and social thought. Rather than functioning as a showcase, the library is treated as a working resource: books are read, revisited, debated, and used to ground contemporary projects in deeper cultural, historical, and theoretical understanding. The presence of travel writing, visual culture, cartoons, and regional-language philosophy reflects the studio’s belief that architecture emerges from a broad intellectual and human context, not just from technical manuals.

The library is maintained as an ongoing academic endeavour, supporting research, internal discussions, and mentorship within the office. Students, researchers, and fellow practitioners may access the collection by request. To do so, visitors are invited to get in touch with the office through the contact form, after which access can be arranged based on availability and purpose of study.

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400 Years Underground Living Aqueduct

Dr. Shaikh Ramzan

Bombay Imagined

Various

Discourses (Marathi)

Various

Selected Works (Marathi)

Various

Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

Sadhguru

The RSS: Roadmaps for the 21st Century

Sunil Ambekar

Dachau: The Concentration Camp 1933-1945

Zámečník

The Right Joke for the Right Occasion

Kevin Goldstein-Jackson

Mario’s Bombay

Mario Miranda

The Life of Mario (1951)

Mario Miranda

The Life of Mario (1950)

Mario Miranda

The Very Best of the Common Man

R. K. Laxman

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

Rome: The Eternal City

Various

Singapore for the Indian Traveller

Lonely Planet

Bombay

Mario Miranda

Photography To-Day

Spencer

Me and My Camera

E. O. Partridge

Kalamkari: Figures and Designs

K. Prakash

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

The Poetics of Space

Gaston Bachelard

Design as Art

Bruno Munari

Clear Thinking

Shane Parrish

101 Design Methods

Vijay Kumar

Re-Development Disasters: Mistakes That Could Cost Your Home

Prateek Patil

Masters Thesis Anthology

Various Authors

Letters to a Young Architect

Christopher Benninger

Reflections

Yatin Pandya

Concepts of Space in Traditional Indian Architecture

Yatin Pandya

Supporting the City

Howard Wright (Ed.)

Urban Space

Im Sik Cho; Chye Kiang Heng; Zdravko Trivic

The Future of Historic Cities: Urban Heritage in Asia

Edited Volume

Bombay: From Precincts to Sprawl

Rahul Mehrotra & Sharada Dwivedi

The Emergence of an Indigenous Practice in India (1932–1956)

Shrikant Sathe & Shirish Joshi

A Place in the Shade

Charles Correa

A Sense of Space

Ranjit Sabikhi

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Robert Venturi

Towards a New Architecture

Le Corbusier

A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander et al.