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Vijay B Upadhyay
Vijay graduated from Manipal School of Architecture and Planning. He began his career with Gayathri & Namith Architects, working across various firms in Bangalore. With more than 20 years of experience, he worked as studio head for Singapore-based design firm Spacematrix before starting Avanimudra Design.
He has vast experience in designing large-scale residential, healthcare, and educational buildings. He is an avid travel enthusiast with a keen interest in philosophy and behavioral studies.
Rajani M
Graduated from RV School of Architecture, Rajani started her career at Chandavarkar and Thacker Architects. In Avanimudra, she is actively involved in all projects from inception to execution with flawless communication between all the stakeholders. She has a keen eye for detailing and immense material knowledge. Being an avid traveler, she loves photography, exploring new places, and meeting new people.
Practice Ideology
Our works are an attempt to explore the possibilities of architecture that will bring in difference to the lives of the people. We firmly believe that architecture is the backdrop for life. With the desire to introspect and reflect upon the pragmatism of the material world , poetics of our imagination, flavor of cultural aspiration, our works seek to integrate them by striking the right balance. As an underlying principle what we are striving for, is to be truthful and honest in our approach, which will allow one to create elegance without artifice, beauty without being contrived, comfort without having to indulge in irrelevance.
We approach each project with the inquisitiveness of a child, without any prejudice or bias. For us each project is a new exploration set out on a sea of immense creative possibilities reaching out for new untraversed vantage points. Design brief, Material sensibilities along with response to site and climate as the genesis of design, we strive to create meaningful spaces that will resonate and transcend the quality of life beyond mundane and tangible.
avani mudra literally translates to “imprints on earth”, our works are physical manifestation of dreams, collective aspiration, cultural identity, extension of personality of an individual or community. With the understanding that our interventions have an impact on the planet that we all inhabit, will leave behind an irreversible mark, we approach each project with greatest humility and humbleness.
