SPASM Design Architects

SPASM Design Architects was founded in Mumbai in 1995 by Sangeeta Merchant and Sanjeev Panjabi, and works across buildings, interiors, landscapes and objects from an office at Raheja Plaza in Andheri West. The practice does not begin with a style but with place: each project starts from its land, light, climate, material and memory.

The studio describes its method as a two-point perspective — one eye on site, climate, craft and culture, the other on the emotions and rituals that give a place meaning — so that its buildings share a method rather than a look. Work ranges from houses in stone, terracotta and copper to public buildings such as the Sanskriti Vihara centre, and reaches beyond India, with projects in Dubai and the Namibian desert.