Hyderabad is a city that boasts a rich and diverse architectural heritage that has been shaped by its history and cultural influences. The city has been ruled by various dynasties, including the Qutb Shahis, the Mughals, and the Nizams, who have all left their mark on its architecture and influenced young architects in Hyderabad. The architecture of Hyderabad is a unique blend of various styles, including Persian, Islamic, and Hindu architecture. The city is known for its iconic monuments such as the Charminar, Golconda Fort, and the Qutb Shahi Tombs, which are examples of the city’s rich architectural legacy. And the architects in Hyderabad are rising with their unique sense of design and deep cultural influences.
Following are the most thriving architects in Hyderabad to look out for:
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Urban Zen
Instilling fascination, elevating the human spirit, and initiating conversation are the cornerstones of Urban Zen’s design story. A passionate proponent of independent thinking and creative change, Rohit Suraj, Urban Zen’s Founder, and CEO, is a TedX Speaker and has been awarded as one of the Top 50 Architects and Interior Designers of 2019. Apart from several national and international awards over the years, Rohit has designed and executed a vast spectrum of projects of varying scales and profiles.
Firm Name: Urban Zen
Inakrea Architects
We at Inakrea are a young practice with a few years of experience under our belt which was started and handled by Principal Architects, Nilith Paidipally and Manasa Reddy. We take inspiration from the Sanskrit words of “Ina” meaning strong and bold, “Kriya” meaning action and work. Our idealogy and ethos are firmly aligned with our name. We work on several categories of projects including architecture, interiors, retail, hospitality and commercial. Every project we do is unique in its design approach and interpretation. We strive to stay true to the client’s functional needs and sensibilities till the very end. While our signature style is essentially contemporary, we love the challenge of including other cultures and design styles into each project’s to put forth the very best.
Firm Name: Inakrea Architects
Designhaaus solutions
Designhaaus is a multi-disciplinary award winning architectural firm founded by highly creative and innovative architects. With offices in Bangalore and Hyderabad, we seek to maintain high design standards and achieve the same with an enthusiastic, young and dynamic team, whose instinct for design is tempered by real world experience where they have been exposed to designing and supervision of a variety of projects. We believe that its most significant strength is the quality of its people and belief in values.
Firm Name: Designhaaus solutions
Urban Narratives
Urban Narratives engages proactively in creating contextually appropriate, sustainable design solutions within a dynamic and continually evolving environment. The studio’s work addresses new ways of understanding the often contradictory relationships between radically varying design scales. There is an urgency for our built environment to re-establish healthy relationships with the natural world. Similarly, there is an urgency to address the Anthropocene’s unprecedented growth in India and globally and ensure it is regulated to happen sustainably and equitably. Our work searches for the intricate balance between design in this context and the demands of our new world.
Firm Name: Urban Narratives
Spacefiction Studio
Spacefiction Studio was started in 2015 by Baba Sashank and Vindhya Guduru in Hyderabad. Intended to be a blend of design disciplines with architecture as the base, the firm handles projects of various scales and nature. Experienced in shaping the architecture and interiors of large-scale housing, institutions, research labs, and commercial spaces, the studio often dabbles with everything related to design and art.
Firm Name: Spacefiction Studio
Studio Inscape
“Studio Inscape” is a young Architectural design and research studio based out of Hyderabad by founding partners Ar. Chaitanya Padal, Ar.Kinnera Varma and Ar.Radha Neela. Our Studio is process-driven, making our core ideology to be humane and sensitive which resonates with today’s relevance to time but rooted in context and relationships with the past giving meaning and content to the spaces designed. We shape built environments through the integration of craft technology and spacial design.
Firm Name: Studio Inscape
MORIQ
With the collective professional experience that encompasses a wide array of design types including Residential , Commercial, Institutional and Educational facilities, Mr.Riyaz Quraishi and Mrs . Simeen Quraishi , the designer couple, have completed more than a couple of hundred projects. Currently have on-going projects all over the Country. Our international projects are mostly luxury homes and hotels in the Middle East.
Firm Name: MORIQ
Design Experiment
Design Experiment is a small design studio with big dreams. Currently juggling between projects ranging from furniture to housing, we are trying to figure out our niche and capacity while testing the strength of our philosophy.
Firm Name: Design Experiment
F+S Designs
We are a multi-disciplinary Architecture and Interior Design practice from Bangalore & currently based in Hyderabad. We love designing exclusive Luxury Residences, Holiday Homes, Restaurants, and Retail, and Office spaces. Our current project footprint is across Telangana, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, and Kolkata. We plan to bring our design expertise internationally in the next 3 years.
Firm Name: F+S Designs
Crafted Spaces
The Firm led by Mitali Aharam has managed to design, execute, and hand over more than 50 projects in the hospitality, commercial, and residential segments. With a number of varied project styles under their portfolio, Crafted Spaces has created a niche in the hospitality segment by designing and styling numerous restaurants of high repute. Moreover, the brand has managed to create a strong foothold in the residential and commercial gamut by designing massive villas as well as retail spaces.
Firm Name: Crafted Spaces
Beyond Spaces Design Studio
Beyond Spaces Design Studio is a young and passionate studio based in Hyderabad that is committed to creating spaces that inspire and are inspired by the stories of its inhabitants, visitors, observers, and its designers. We create aesthetic, functional, and usable spaces that are memorable and inviting. At the core of what we strive to do is a belief that good design has a crucial role to play in making our everyday experiences into cherished and affectionate memories. This drives us to constantly look for new ways to express ourselves through our designs, always looking for new ways to engage the user through it. With a keen eye for detail and a strong sense of functionality, the studio aims that each of its projects is an embodiment of the design practices that we seek to personify.
Firm Name: Beyond Spaces Design Studio
Squares Design Studio
The squares design studio is an amalgam of young professionals from varied fields like architecture and interior design, dedicated to creating one kind of unique design experience for clients. “When perfect lines and sinuous curves create more than geometry. Where you can experience the next level of aesthetics, fashioned with fanatical detail from absolute simplicity”. This is our design philosophy at a Squares design studio.
Firm Name: Squares Design Studio
Dev & Kaushik Architects
Dev and Kaushik Architects is a design practice based in Hyderabad, headed by Ar. Nikhil Dev and Ar.Kaushik Abhinav. The firm has two wings simultaneously working on both Architecture and Interior design projects. The palette of works includes high-end residences, apartments, and institutions as well as farmhouses.
The practice strongly believes in crafting spaces that are experiential in a holistic sense. Our philosophy is to get the basics right, achieve the best light and ventilation, satisfy the client’s interests, and design spaces that are pleasant to maintain and healthy to live in.
We love designing spaces that are intertwined with landscaping wherever possible. Functional aesthetics is what we give a lot of importance too.
Firm Name: Dev & Kaushik Architects
Skaid Designs
Kish is the most dynamic designer, we have ever had to visit our showroom. His attention to detail, astute sense of color, and proportion, and the appropriate use of material sets him apart. With great audacity but also with the appropriate restraint when necessary, each of his design schemes for each project is a tour de force. Having said that there is nothing in his design scheme that does not reflect the very finest quality.”
Firm Name: Skaid Designs
Kiasma Landscapes
Unique and innovative by name and practice Kiasma is a young landscape architecture and art installation studio with offices in Delhi NCR and Hyderabad.
Landscape to us is ecologically healthy, culturally sensitive organic fatic with a life of its own, hence we constantly strive towards blurring the lines between the built and nature.
Firm Name: Kiasma Landscapes
Phylosophy Design Studio
We believe in the seamless integration of architecture and interiors, offering an entire gamut of Residential and Commercial design services. We come on board at the ideation and pre-construction stage, taking the journey with each client through every minute specifically, which gives all our projects an atmosphere. Candid communication and design thinking have complemented our work, resulting in extraordinary experiences across the board.
Vasundhara Sampath and Nikita Sahney are an eclectic symbiosis of spontaneity and methodology. Vasundhara’s creative vocabulary and keen eye for aesthetics are seamlessly complemented by Nikita’s management and organizational skills.
Firm Name: Phylosophy Design Studio
Chirag Design Studio
Chirag Design Studio (CDS) is an award-winning, multidisciplinary firm in the field of architecture and Interior designing, led by Principal Architect Chirag Swain. The firm specializes in designing luxury villas, designer boutique stores, beautiful home decor, hospitality projects, and corporate offices.
The firm from designing single high-end Villas since the year 2005 is now designing multi-dwelling large-scale housing projects and master planning big integrated satellite townships.
Firm Name: Chirag Design Studio
Antara Design Studio
Antara Design Studio is a Hyderabad-based Architecture and Interior Design studio, established in 2020 by Kalyani Anantharaman who comes with a vast 15-plus years of experience. We are specialized in end-to-end Residential and commercial interior design. We aim at exceeding the expectations of every client by offering, innovative concepts, user-friendly designs, and outstanding service. We strongly believe that design meets your needs and reflects your personality and lifestyle. We respect clients’ budgets and customize solutions that work within them.
Firm Name: Antara Design Studio
Aarna Architects
Training in and the performance of Bharathanatyam since childhood brought into her life the essential elements necessary to recognize, appreciate, learn, understand, and create artistic expressions. Further in her life, studying and practicing art and architecture became an extension of her creativity and expression where form follows function based on realizing the dreams of an individual, a family, or a group of individuals, be it for their residence, their workplace, their farm houses or any form of space where they intend to spend quality time, with Manasa ensuring that “Design gives Divinity and Dignity to all users.
Firm Name: Aarna Architects
Nikhil Jain Architects
Nikhil Jain Architects is a design consultancy firm that specializes in Architecture, Interior Design, and Design Management. From offering creative, sustainable, and future-ready design solutions, to managing its construction, we handle everything for you.
Firm Name: Nikhil Jain Architects
naav studio
Firm Name: naav studio
MADe
MADe was founded in 2007 as a one-person architectural practice established by Madhusudhan Chalasani in 2005. The studio works on projects ranging from residential to large-scale urban regeneration. Work also includes competitions and self-initiated projects in search of the unexpected.
Firm Name: MADe
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Overall, the architects in Hyderabad are known for their innovative designs, sustainable architecture, and contemporary style that blends seamlessly with their surroundings. From iconic monuments like Charminar to modern commercial spaces, the architects and firms in Hyderabad have designed several structures that are both functional and aesthetically pleasing. The city has a thriving architectural community that is constantly pushing the boundaries of design and innovation. With their unique and distinctive styles, the architects in Hyderabad have helped create a city that is not only rich in culture and history but also a visual treat for architectural enthusiasts.
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