Sameep Padora Presents Looking for Context | THE WORLD AROUND SUMMIT 2024

The World Around & The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum present THE WORLD AROUND SUMMIT 2024.
Since Sameep Padora founded sP+a in 2007, the Mumbai-based practice has gained a reputation for pushing its projects beyond the briefs to deepen their social impact. In 2021, sP+a received the Wallpaper Design Award for Best Public Building for its Temple of Steps: an abstracted interpretation of the classical Hindu typology that became the center of a remedial landscape strategy, replenishing water reserves below ground to irrigate the cotton and chilli farms surrounding the site.
Through hands-on research and continual collaboration, the studio aims to bring local craftsmanship into conversation with advanced construction methods, expanding ‘preservation’ to allow tradition to evolve and endure.
Across an award-winning portfolio featuring housing developments, educational institutes, places of worship, and the adaptive reuse of a historic fort, the practice has traversed southern India with its projects, each as diverse as they are beautiful. What connects them-across the peninsula’s disparate geographies, climates and cultures-is a profoundly contextual approach to design that has become the practice’s hallmark.
At The World Around Summit, Padora will discuss how sP+a brought this approach to its most recent projects: an arts centre in south India with undulating contours that flow into the landscape, and revolutionising proposals for affordable 3D-printed mass housing. Bringing together architects from across the globe, the Summit is a platform to “catalyze conversations on shared values and point towards interesting directions,” Padora says.
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This presentation has been edited and was part of THE WORLD AROUND SUMMIT 2024, presented by The World Around and the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Saturday, May, 11 2024. The event was hosted in partnership with The World Around Global Cultural Partner Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain.
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