"The Aparnaa School is a site for the testing of ideas, and an environment which is able to hold within itself many meanings of use and of growth. A place where the age of time is measured on and with the manmade."
"ephemeral groundedness: experimenting with rules, roles and meanings of the built environment through play"
"a [plan] organization retracing the quintessential condition of the front range: a linear collective form which becomes the social heart of the architecture"
"Our work takes us many places, and their impressions inform our work in turn."
"the window at DAVA becomes an accomplice in construing a visual structure for the desiring gaze,
and begins to reconstitute the cultural expectations of 'the view'"
"Enclosures for a garden,
making an outdoor room"
"When an import becomes indigenous, it is not just a formal stylistic adaptation; there is a very interesting back and forth in terms of how practices begin to evolve, emerge...it is far more interesting to follow the practice and the transfer of authorship...."
"deep red space-objects
and the theatre of conversations "
"A bit of metal garnish:
horizontal rain and chajjas to verandahs"
"Technical and architectural drawings can co-exist. In the speed of thinking, the mind is trying to record an instrumentality; how something works or is made. This has carried through to my subsequent way of working"