Shubhra’s practice involves designing buildings and teaching architecture. With graduate and postgraduate degrees in architecture and a minor in theory and criticism from Cornell and CEPT Universities, she founded shubhra raje_built environments, an architecture and design studio that concerns itself with relevant design, architectural economy and spatial ecology.

The work ranges from community networks in Colorado, rehabilitating masonry structures in Egypt to the design of cultural, social and educational spaces in India and the US – thereby engaging diverse issues, multiple constituencies and varying scales and geographies. It engages with the practical mundane and its constraints within the specific context of each project through the lens of profound relationships that remake the conventional rather than merely of expressive shape making.

Based out of the United States and India, Shubhra is inspired by the exciting shift in the dialogue between architecture and its context, in which the architect’s methods and approaches are being consistently re-evaluated. Her practice ascribes to an expanded definition of sustainability that moves beyond experimentation with new materials and technologies to include social and economic stewardship. Using design as a tool, these undertakings not only offer pragmatic solutions to known needs, but also aim to be relevant for the communities and building cultures within which she works.

Shubhra is a visiting professor of Architecture at the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) in Ahmedabad (India). She has taught at her graduate alma-mater Cornell University, University of Colorado and continues to engage with students across the globe conducting workshops and serving as a visiting critic.

She lectures where invited and serves on the boards of various community arts organizations in the United States and India. These have given her the opportunity to deepen her interests and collaborations beyond architecture, informing and expanding the nature of her practice. Most recently, she co-founded the Anant Raje Foundation and the Olive Ridley Collective, each a cross-disciplinary initiative in the fields of art, architecture and the built environment.