Snehal Shah : Architect
Contents: 1. Acknowledgements. 2. To build on dusty plains/Haig Beck and Jackie cooper. 3. Five lessons/Snehal Shah. 4. Works 2000-2009: India 2000-2009. 5. Ram Krishna mission temple porbandar. 6. Amrut mody school of management, Ahmedabad. 7. Family guest house, Bhat. 8. Architects office Ahmedabad. 9. Temple wall Nadiad. 10. Family house, Ahmedabad. 11. BK Majumdar Institute of Business administration, Ahmedabad. 12. Family house, Udaipur. 13. Architects house, Ahmedabad, 14. Shivam Hospital, Nadiad. 15. Works 2010: India 2010. 16. TCS IT/ITES SEZ, Garima Park, Gandhinagar. 17. Vice-Chancellor and registrar’s house, Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Ahmedabad. 18. Weekened house, Suramya, Ahmedabad. 19. Zydus centre for excellence, Ahmedabad. 20. Bhavnagar energy corporation Ltd. Bhavnagar. 21. Shalom International School, Jaipur. 22. Ravishankar Maharaj Samadhi, Bochasan. 23. The early years of practice: India 1987-1996. 24. Family house, Ahmedabad. 25. Family house, Ahmedabad. 26. Anar chemicals office extension and factory, Ahmedabad. 27. UN Mehta Institute of cardiology, Ahmedabad. 28. Interior design India 1987. 29. Family house, Ahmedabad. 30. Family house, Chennai. 31. Wedding pavilions, Ahmedabad. 32. Unbuilt works India 1987. 33. The gateway hotel. 34. Karnavati Club. 35. Ahmedabad University. 36. Cadilla laboratories warehouse. 37. TCS software campus. 38. Practice culture. 39. Office organisation/Kruti Choksi. 40. Lectures. 41. Selected publications. 43. Colleagues and consultants. 44. Photography credits.
Snehal Shah’s interest in the monumental architecture of the past the Renaissance and subsequent periods in Europe, and also medieval architecture in western India, especially the Solanki period of the 10th-13th centuries astonishes. He has researched medieval water architecture in western India, and his studies in that hitherto neglected field are producing remarkably insightful information.
His concerns for response to climate and making spaces that are lively are informed by his historical understanding: this guides the spatial language of his architecture, the functional concepts, and the aesthetically appealing elements and motifs he creatively transforms and incorporates into his own designs.
