About

Neither Especially Clever,
Nor Especially Gifted.
Only Very, Very Curious.

I am an architect, interior designer, furniture-maker, educator and entrepreneur based in Hyderabad, India. In that chaos, I also photograph, travel, write, or paint.

At first, I wanted to be a scientist. I went through school quite convinced that I would become one. But I had also spent my childhood surrounded by designers — my parents and my brother — and one thing led to another. I ended up studying architecture.

In the beginning, I was drawn to the structural logic and mathematical beauty of construction. But reading, sketching and wet-on-wet watercolour gradually revealed the myriad layers of possibilities within architecture.

I was hooked.

Many years later, I still am.

Architecture has since taken me through buildings, interiors, furniture, conservation and teaching. Somewhere along the way I discovered that I was often as interested in what happened around architecture as I was in architecture itself: how people inhabit places, how buildings change after we leave the drawing board, how memory attaches itself to ordinary things, and why some places stay with us while others don’t.

Photography became another way of looking. Travel became another. Writing, increasingly, is another.

I am interested in design at any scale and level of complexity. I work on anything I find interesting. That was true when I wrote the first version of this page many years ago. It remains true now.

The Situated Eye is where these interests meet.

It is a place for architectural musings, photographs, things noticed while travelling, questions about design and conservation, and the occasional thought that refuses to fit neatly into any of those categories.

I practise architecture and interior design through Urban Arts  in Hyderabad. That is where the buildings, interiors and more conventional account of my professional work live.

Mostly, though, I remain curious.