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STUDIO DECODE is a multi-disciplinary architecture + design firm with over two decades of experience. The firm is interested in exploring the blurred boundaries in design between culture, global aspirations and urbanism.
Founded in Bangalore in June 2006, the practice is headed by architects Ashok Dutta and Meghana Dutta.
The firm’s works are an effort to produce an enriched environment through the overlapping connections to design, context, environment, engineering as well as processes of production. Projects at the firm include among others Office campuses, Institutional Campuses, Multi-family housing, Single-family homes, Interiors, Retail, Hospitality, Healthcare, Industrial infrastructures, Corporate, Residential and Retail Interiors.
The firm’s works has been recognized globally through publications and features. The office is a highly collaborative practice comprising of a team of architects, interior designers, technologists, administrative managers, interns from multiple disciplines and assistants.
At Studio Decode Academia is integrated into the rigor of the practice. Architectural education, Research in architecture and Architectural practice are interdependent and interconnected. Critical Analysis of architectural theory and research are built into the core of practice. The collective of the Practice and Academia in the same ecosystem, enriches the practice.
India is a country that has been lived in continuously for many thousands of years. This continuous habitation has allowed many ideas to be experimented and successfully implemented. For us architects there is an immense existing knowledgebase we can tap into and be inspired from. However, we live at a time like no other before where the world is united with a singular ethos and aspirations. ….where global is local or ‘GLOCAL’ which is a common term to define this phenomenon. At Studio Decode it is our effort to tap into this exhaustive local knowledgebase that exist with GLOCAL aspirations to weave strategies that allow us to deliver products that has a thumb on the global pulse of aspiration.
ASHOK is a founding partner of the firm Studio Decode. He is interested in investigating the overlapping connections of design, context, environment, engineering and craft in an effort to produce an enriched spatial experience. The firm’s work engages closely with context, site and culture because it influences us to interpret global aspirations with local expressions. Prior to founding Studio Decode he has worked at Gehry Technologies in the office of Frank Gehry at Los Angeles in the area of Building Information Technology and in the Technology Solutions department at Clough Harbour and Associates at Albany, New York in the application of CAD technologies in construction. He has been a visiting faculty at colleges of architecture in Bangalore as well as has delivered several lectures in conventions and institutions around the country. He holds a Masters in Informatics and Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York and a Bachelor of Architecture from B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India.
MEGHANA is a founding partner of the firm Studio Decode. She brings environmental consciousness into the design of the various projects and leads the firm’s initiatives in research and implementation for their sustainable efforts. She has been a Visiting Faculty at colleges of Architecture in Bangalore and has delivered lectures in conventions and institutions around the country. Prior to Studio Decode she has worked at Arrowstreet and Leeser Architecture in the US. She holds a Masters in Sustainability from Harvard University, Masters in Architecture from Syracuse University, USA and a Bachelor of Architecture from B.M.S. College of Engineering, India.