Collaborative Architecture is an international award winning studio head-quartered in Mumbai. The studio has a design centre in Calicut, South India. The practice is headed by Lalita Tharani and Mujib Ahmed, who have been successful in propelling the firm to the forefront of the new Asian Avant Grade Architecture and Design.Architecture at COLLABORATIVE goes beyond the generally prevailing notions of functional contingencies and simplistic approach to problem solving. Projects are dealt as critical explorations of ideas; transcendental and trans-formative visions, augmented by sound research methodologies, client participation and exploratory processes.The studio excels in an immersive design process that pushes the boundaries, by engaging our clients, various stake holders and international team of consultants / experts, to open up new possibilities, resulting in projects; those are functionally successful, contextually relevant and affordable with a longer design life cycle.The practice is driven by innovation and ceaseless pursuit of quality in design, explored through a kaleidoscope of cutting edge technologies and new materials, cultural responsiveness and behavioural patterns, context and historicity, etc.The studio’s works exemplify the convergence of people, places, culture, climate, economics and collaborative efforts of related disciplines to create projects, which are highly sensitive, poetic, affordable and contemporary.