Samira Rathod
{{short description|Indian architect and designer}}
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Samira Rathod (born Samira Mehta in 1963{{cite book |last1=Desai |first1=Madhavi |title=Women Architects and Modernism in India: Narratives and contemporary practices |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781315454634 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DcRCDQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Samira+Rathod%22&pg=PT454 |access-date=11 December 2018 |chapter=26: Samira Rathod (1963-)}}) is an Indian architect, furniture designer, writer, and teacher based in Mumbai. She is a Principal of Samira Rathod Design Associates.
Biography
Samira Rathod attended the Sir J. J. College of Architecture in Mumbai and graduated in 1986. Thereafter, she received a Master in Architecture degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988.{{cite news |last1=Rao |first1=Bindu Gopal |title=Building dreams, scaling heights |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/content/470906/building-dreams-scaling-heights.html |access-date=11 December 2018 |work=The Deccan Herald |date=10 April 2015}}
Samira Rathod worked for the California firm of Don Wald and Associates on various projects including some for Clint Eastwood.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}} Returning to India, she worked for Ratan Batliboi and then eventually started her own partnership firm in 1995 called RLC. Her 1996 solo furniture exhibition called 'Liasons de Formes' led to a much broader public recognition in India.
In 2000 she started a solo practice called Samira Rathod Design Associates.{{cite news |last1=Agazzi |first1=Davide |title=Il coraggio di osare L'arcVision alla giovane svizzera Angela Deuber |url=https://www.bergamonews.it/2015/03/06/il-coraggio-di-osarelarcvision-alla-giovanesvizzera-angela-deuber/201889/ |access-date=11 December 2018 |work=BergamoNews |date=6 March 2015}}
In 2008, she founded SPADE, a critical architectural publication with a focus on Indian architecture.{{cite news |last1=Pandey |first1=Tejal |title=Let's talk about design |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/lets-talk-about-design/article18420214.ece |access-date=11 December 2018 |work=The Hindu |date=10 May 2017}}
Rathod is an adjunct faculty member at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies (KRVIA) in Mumbai.
Work
Samira Rathod worked on residential architecture, offices, schools and factories.
- 2010: The Broacha House, Alibag.[https://archello.com/project/the-broacha-residence The broacha residence], Archello.com
- 2012: The Camera House[http://www.home-review.com/2012/02/the-camera-house/ The Camera House], Home-review.com, 14 February 2012
- 2016: The Acid test (Apartment design), Mumbai[http://www.home-review.com/2016/11/the-acid-test/ The Acid Test], Home-review.com, 14 November 2016
- 2017: The Shadow House, Mumbai, India[https://www.archdaily.com/871479/the-shadow-house-samira-rathod-design-associates The Shadow House / Samira Rathod Design Associates], Archdaily.com, 2017{{cite web|last1=Gregory|first1=Rob|title=Broacha House by Samira Rathod Design Associates, Alibaug, Maharashtra, India|url=http://www.architectural-review.com/buildings/broacha-house-by-samira-rathod-design-associates-alibaug-maharashtra-india/8604845.article|website=The Architectural Review|access-date=15 October 2015|date=23 August 2010}}
- The Bangalore House
- The Mariwalla House
- The Hariharan House
- The Karjat House (designed for Morarka Gannon with a kitchen, dining hall, a living room, bedrooms and 6 bathrooms){{cite book |last1=Ngo |first1=Dung |title=World House Now: Contemporary Architectural Directions |date=2003 |publisher=Universe |isbn=9780789308856 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tS1UAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Samira+Rathod%22 |access-date=11 December 2018}}
- Mumbai office of retailer Hometown{{cite journal |last1=Jayakar |first1=Devyani |title=Hometown's Mumbai office is a wooded wonderland for its employees |journal=Architectural Digest |date=13 July 2018 |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/office-design-hometown-mumbai/#s-cust0 |access-date=11 December 2018}}
- 2019 : School of Dancing Arches (with asymmetrical archesNiveditaa Gupta, [http://www.arquitecturaviva.com/en/Info/News/Details/14429 Samira Rathod Design Atelier, school in Bhadran (India)], Arquitecturaviva.com, 4 September 2019), Bhadran, India[https://www.archdaily.com/923446/school-of-dancing-arches-samira-rathod-design-associates School of Dancing Arches / Samira Rathod Design Associates], Archdaily.com, 2019
- 2022: Dismantling Building: A Kit of Parts{{Cite news |last=Bhuyan |first=Avantika |date=14 July 2022 |title="Step into the imaginarium of architect Samira Rathod" |pages= |work=
url=https://lifestyle.livemint.com/how-to-lounge/art-culture/step-into-the-imaginarium-of-architect-samira-rathod-111657768871926.html }} at [[Chemould Prescott Road
The style of Samira Rathod is characterized by playful shapes and eclectic designs. She works with a cohesive approach of interior/exterior, which explains some of her architectural choices.Marianna Guernieri, [https://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/gallery/2019/08/22/school-of-dancing-arches-by-samira-rathod-design-associates.html India. A school for perpetual hide and seek], Domusweb.it, 22 August 2019
Exhibitions in which she has participated include a contemporary architecture exhibition at the Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur (February–April 2018), where she exhibited 'A Wall as a Room',{{cite news |last1=Varghese |first1=Shiny |title=A contemporary architecture exhibition at the Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, questions the notions of space and time |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/terrains-of-the-mind-jawahar-kala-kendra-jaipur-5115171/ |access-date=11 December 2018 |work=The Indian Express |date=29 March 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Bhuyan |first1=Avantika |title=Art and architecture at Jawahar Kala Kendra |url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/gQJguOO4RwtohPNz8xNs9M/Art-and-architecture-at-Jawahar-Kala-Kendra.html |access-date=11 December 2018 |work=Livemint |date=17 February 2018}} and a travelling exhibition, 'The Death of Architecture Circa 2000' (2018), featuring 13 leading Indian architects, in which Rathod's piece 'In the Presence of Absence' explores an almost abandoned town near Vadodara.{{cite news |title=Exhibition chronicles 'death of architecture' |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/exhibition-chronicles-death-of-architecture/articleshow/66889135.cms |access-date=11 December 2018 |work=The Times of India |agency=TNN |date=1 December 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Varghese |first1=Shiny |title=Sense of a Beginning |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/sense-of-a-beginning-5255693/ |access-date=11 December 2018 |work=The Indian Express |date=12 July 2018}}
Publications
- Samira Rathod, Museum of Trees (2018): a documentation of the 3000 trees of the Byculla Zoo in Mumbai.{{cite news |last1=Sahoo |first1=Priyanka |title=Museum of Trees: Little known facts of trees in Mumbai's Byculla Zoo |url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/a-tree-sure-trove/articleshow/66801659.cms |access-date=11 December 2018 |work=Mumbai Mirror |date=26 November 2018}}
Awards
- 2015: Honorable mention for the arcVision Prize - Women and Architecture by the Italcementi Group.{{cite web|last1=Scalco|first1=Chiara|title=The Swiss architect Angela Deuber is the winner of the third edition of the arcVision Prize|url=http://www.arketipomagazine.it/en/the-swiss-architect-angela-deuber-is-the-winner-of-the-third-edition-of-the-arcvision-prize/|website=Arketipo|access-date=15 October 2015|date=17 March 2015}}
- The Habitat Award for Single Residence Winner's Trophy for The Karjat House{{cite book|title=Architecture + Design|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4fxUAAAAMAAJ|date=January 2004|publisher=S.K. Bhayana for Media Transasia (I) Pvt. Limited|page=42}}
References
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External links
- [https://thinkmatter.in/2019/03/08/samira-rathod-on-practice-of-interior-design/ Samira Rathod on practice of interior design], Thinkmatter.in, 8 March 2019
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Category:20th-century Indian architects
Category:Indian women architects
Category:20th-century Indian designers
Category:20th-century Indian women artists