Jateen Lad has been awarded a prestigious RIBA International Award for Excellence 2024 for the ““exceptional beauty, functionality and tranquillity” of his Sharanam Centre for Rural Development near Pondicherry. The judges consider it “a world-class exemplar for the future of low cost, innovative and green community buildings.”
Jateen Lad has been appointed architect for the rescue and redevelopment of Ashton’s landmark Hudson’s Bay building into a unique sustainable hotel.
How will the Aurostores project address this nearby mountain of waste?
Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry have appointed Jateen Lad as architect for Aurostores, a new rural supermarket serving local communities.
The Community and Natural City symposium, to be held at Palazzo Michele on 3rd November 2023, have invited Jateen Lad to deliver the opening remarks.
New innovative materials highlight family history and identity in the sensitive transformation of the Villa Gehmann interior.
Jateen Lad has been appointed architect to transform a 1950s modernist villa and its landscaped grounds, near Karlsruhe, southern Germany, into the new centre for the Ideal Spaces Foundation.
Jateen Lad is collaborating with historian Professor Malavika Kasturi on a new project covering the spectacular taziya processions in the city of Varanasi, India.
Ashton Town Centre (as elsewhere) is on its Knees. Jateen Lad has published a manual of strategic moves to fix the town.
Tameside Council have appointed Jateen Lad to the Ashton Town Centre Delivery Group which is responsible for driving growth and supporting the regeneration of the town centre.
In Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica Issue 165, Alessandro Lanzetta reflects on the work and practice of Jateen Lad to offer lessons from the global south that are equally valid for many depressed areas of the West.
Several designs and models by Jateen Lad feature in an exhibition of international architecture at the Miami Centre for Architecture and Design, 4 November 2021 to 30 January 2022.
As part of the 2021 Venice Biennale “Resilient Communities” project Jateen Lad has been invited to join an international panel at the Italian Pavilion to discuss the shift from sustainability to resilience, 20 October 2021.
The Built Environment Summit, 28-29 October 2021, at COP26 showcased select projects including Jateen Lad’s work to demonstrate the built environment's capability to transition to a sustainable future.
Cultural theorist Ulrich Gehmann and Flora Loughridge interview Jateen Lad in the latest episode of the Ideal Spaces podcast, released on 14 September 2021. The discussion questions the role of the architect in the face of natural climate disasters and introduces the idea of an increasingly visible The Fourth World in western countries.
Built for the Environment, a major report published jointly by the RIBA and Architects Declare addressing the climate and biodiversity emergency, includes a case study of Jateen Lad’s Sharanam Centre for Rural Development.
New infrastructure at Matrikunj farm in progress reinforcing the landscape against increased threats of monsoon flooding.
Jateen Lad has been appointed by the Sri Aurobindo Society to master plan new infrastructure at Matrikunj farm and to design a number of social development projects including a training centre for organic farming and a new centre for autistic children.
The rapid redesign of the Akshaya Kshetram campuses guards against the COVID pandemic enabling communities to continue interacting safely.
Jateen Lad’s Sharanam Centre for Rural Development in Pondicherry is featured in World Class Buildings by UK Architects published by RIBA.
The ground breaking edition of AD Architectural Design on The Social Value of Architecture features a specially commissioned title page drawing by Alexandre Rossignol and Arianne Pizem.
The latest edition of AD Architectural Design, The Social Value of Architecture, features a chapter by Jateen Lad entitled “Architecture from the Ground Up” outlining practical design and project delivery strategies for creating meaningful social benefits for local communities.
The almost sacred qualities of the land long to be accessible to benefit wider communities
with new pathways, vistas, spaces to gather and rest overlooking the lake and sunken into the soft earth, secret moments in the landscape waiting to be discovered or missed.
Jateen Lad has been appointed architect to generate a future vision for the continued conservation of a private 25 acre landscape of blanket bog, a lough and grasslands with increased community access for well-being and inspirational value.
Akshaya Kshetram, the highly respected orphanage and special needs charity near the pilgrimage city of Tirupati, south India, have commissioned Jateen Lad to work on the long-term transformation of their existing centres into upgraded sustainable campuses.
Sharanam Centre for Rural Development features on the cover of Indian Architect & Builder, May 2017, with an extensive article, photographs and drawings.
Sharanam Centre for Rural Development opened by SARVAM's annual children's camp.
The Architects Journal, February 2016, devotes an 8-page building study to the Sharanam Centre for Rural Development. Editor Hattie Hartmann describes the project as "an exemplar sustainable development and a force for social change in the area."
Recently completed Office Building at Sharanam finished with earth plastered walls, hand-trowelled and polished concrete floor, windows and doors in reclaimed Burma teak, smooth concrete soffit cast insitu onto mud formwork.
XXI Architecture and Design Magazine, February 2017, features Sharanam Centre for Rural Development on the cover.
Split level ponds under the vault opening forms the axis for the Phase 2 dormitories and conference facilities presently under construction.
Institute of Management at Usteri Lake: Meditation landscape under the ancient banyan tree.
Academy House and fishermens' village, Beach Road, Pondicherry on the Bay of Bengal.
Renowned British composer Nigel Osborne rehearsing the opera Nachiketan on the Sharanam construction site, November 2013.
Local Workers + Local Resources: village workers employed and trained to manufacture over 200,000 high-quality compressed earth blocks using the red soil of the site.
Rainwater Harvesting: hand excavation for the new 80,000 litre underground sump for harvesting rooftop rainwater.
A large open well runs dry and is preserved as a memory in the landscape........
