About the Book
Shaping the future of design, this monograph showcases the visionary work of NUDES, the award-winning Mumbai-based studio founded by architect Nuru Karim. Featuring projects from experimental pavilions to large-scale infrastructure, it explores architecture’s response to social and environmental challenges. With a foreword by Patrik Schumacher, the book situates NUDES within global contemporary architecture, highlighting its use of parametric design, advanced technologies, and sustainable strategies to create adaptive, future-oriented urban solutions.
“What is perhaps most commendable is Karim’s insistence on architecture’s civic mission. His projects operate across scales and typologies, always enriching the public realm. Whether crafting schools, housing, parks, or transport hubs, Karim ensures that his parametric articulations serve a humanist agenda. In celebrating Nuru Karim and his studio, we are reminded that the future of architecture lies in those who dare to think computationally, act ecologically, and design poetically. This book is both testament and provocation.” – Patrik Schumacher Principal, Zaha Hadid Architects
About the Author
Nuru Karim is the Founder and Principal of NUDES, an award-winning design studio focused on using architecture and advanced technologies to address social and environmental challenges. Educated at the Architectural Association in London, with earlier studies in Mumbai and Montreal, he has built an international profile through innovative, sustainable, and culturally engaged projects that rethink the relationship between design, ecology, and society.
