Samira Rathod

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Samira Rathod
NationalityIndian
Alma materSir J. J. College of Architecture
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
OccupationArchitect
PartnerKirti Rathod
PracticeDon Wald and Associates
Ratan J. Batliboi
Samira Rathod Design Associates

Samira Rathod (born Samira Mehta in 1963[1]) is an Indian architect, furniture designer, writer, and teacher based in Mumbai. She is a Principal of Samira Rathod Design Associates.

Biography[edit]

Samira Rathod attended the Sir J. J. College of Architecture in Mumbai[1] and graduated in 1986. Thereafter, she received a Master in Architecture degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988.[1][2]

Samira Rathod worked for the California firm of Don Wald and Associates on various projects including some for Clint Eastwood.[citation needed] Returning to India, she worked for Ratan Batliboi[1][2] and then eventually started her own partnership firm in 1995 called RLC.[1] Her 1996 solo furniture exhibition called 'Liasons de Formes'[1] led to a much broader public recognition in India.

In 2000 she started a solo practice called Samira Rathod Design Associates.[2][3]

In 2008, she founded SPADE, a critical architectural publication with a focus on Indian architecture.[4]

Rathod is an adjunct faculty member at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies (KRVIA) in Mumbai.

Work[edit]

Samira Rathod worked on residential architecture, offices, schools and factories.[2]

  • 2010: The Broacha House, Alibag.[5]
  • 2012: The Camera House[6]
  • 2016: The Acid test (Apartment design), Mumbai[7]
  • 2017: The Shadow House, Mumbai, India[8][9]
  • The Bangalore House
  • The Mariwalla House[1]
  • The Hariharan House
  • The Karjat House (designed for Morarka Gannon with a kitchen, dining hall, a living room, bedrooms and 6 bathrooms)[10]
  • Mumbai office of retailer Hometown[11]
  • 2019 : School of Dancing Arches (with asymmetrical arches[12]), Bhadran, India[13]
  • 2022: Dismantling Building: A Kit of Parts[14] at Chemould Prescott Road

The style of Samira Rathod is characterized by playful shapes and eclectic designs. She works with a cohesive approach of interior/exterior, which explains some of her architectural choices.[15]

Exhibitions in which she has participated include a contemporary architecture exhibition at the Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur (February–April 2018), where she exhibited 'A Wall as a Room',[16][17] and a travelling exhibition, 'The Death of Architecture Circa 2000' (2018), featuring 13 leading Indian architects, in which Rathod's piece 'In the Presence of Absence' explores an almost abandoned town near Vadodara.[18][19]

Publications[edit]

  • Samira Rathod, Museum of Trees (2018): a documentation of the 3000 trees of the Byculla Zoo in Mumbai.[20]

Awards[edit]

  • 2015: Honorable mention for the arcVision Prize - Women and Architecture by the Italcementi Group.[2][3][21]
  • The Habitat Award for Single Residence Winner's Trophy for The Karjat House[22]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Desai, Madhavi (2016). "26: Samira Rathod (1963-)". Women Architects and Modernism in India: Narratives and contemporary practices. Routledge. ISBN 9781315454634. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e Rao, Bindu Gopal (10 April 2015). "Building dreams, scaling heights". The Deccan Herald. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  3. ^ a b Agazzi, Davide (6 March 2015). "Il coraggio di osare L'arcVision alla giovane svizzera Angela Deuber". BergamoNews. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  4. ^ Pandey, Tejal (10 May 2017). "Let's talk about design". The Hindu. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  5. ^ The broacha residence, Archello.com
  6. ^ The Camera House, Home-review.com, 14 February 2012
  7. ^ The Acid Test, Home-review.com, 14 November 2016
  8. ^ The Shadow House / Samira Rathod Design Associates, Archdaily.com, 2017
  9. ^ Gregory, Rob (23 August 2010). "Broacha House by Samira Rathod Design Associates, Alibaug, Maharashtra, India". The Architectural Review. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  10. ^ Ngo, Dung (2003). World House Now: Contemporary Architectural Directions. Universe. ISBN 9780789308856. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  11. ^ Jayakar, Devyani (13 July 2018). "Hometown's Mumbai office is a wooded wonderland for its employees". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  12. ^ Niveditaa Gupta, Samira Rathod Design Atelier, school in Bhadran (India), Arquitecturaviva.com, 4 September 2019
  13. ^ School of Dancing Arches / Samira Rathod Design Associates, Archdaily.com, 2019
  14. ^ Bhuyan, Avantika (14 July 2022). ""Step into the imaginarium of architect Samira Rathod"". [[Mint Lounge].
  15. ^ Marianna Guernieri, India. A school for perpetual hide and seek, Domusweb.it, 22 August 2019
  16. ^ Varghese, Shiny (29 March 2018). "A contemporary architecture exhibition at the Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, questions the notions of space and time". The Indian Express. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  17. ^ Bhuyan, Avantika (17 February 2018). "Art and architecture at Jawahar Kala Kendra". Livemint. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  18. ^ "Exhibition chronicles 'death of architecture'". The Times of India. TNN. 1 December 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  19. ^ Varghese, Shiny (12 July 2018). "Sense of a Beginning". The Indian Express. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  20. ^ Sahoo, Priyanka (26 November 2018). "Museum of Trees: Little known facts of trees in Mumbai's Byculla Zoo". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  21. ^ Scalco, Chiara (17 March 2015). "The Swiss architect Angela Deuber is the winner of the third edition of the arcVision Prize". Arketipo. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  22. ^ Architecture + Design. S.K. Bhayana for Media Transasia (I) Pvt. Limited. January 2004. p. 42.

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