Aug/Sept.1987

Feb/March.1988

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A TEMPLE TO RAMA
(Published in August/September 1987 issue of Inside Outside)

- Mukesh Vatsyayana

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LINES AND CURVES
(Published in Inside outside's issue of Feb/March 1988)

- Prakash Rao

"I wanted people to know right at the threshold that this was the house of an architect," says Shirish Sukhatme, with obvious pleasure in his new home. And sure enough, the unusual door with its graphic facade, announces in no uncerain terms that here dwells a designer.

Sukhatme is not an interior architect (he designs buildings) and this is the first flat that he has really desinged, though this is hard to believe from the close attention to detail apparent throughout the apartment....more

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AN EXERCISE IN BASIC DESIGN
(Published in Indian Architect & Builder's issue of June 1994)

- Yasmin Premji

After doing his M Arch in Industrial Landscaping at IIT Kharagpur, Sukhatme joined the J J School of Art & Architecture, Bombay, to teach basic design. The students then were on strike, not attending studios. The principal, handing over the charge of the studio to Sukhatme, told him to make it a very objective course, to make up for the time lost in the strike. Thus, Sukhatme's initial approach was based totally on practical exercises and experimentation.

"I always tell my students that even if you know the musical notes of 'sa, re, ga, pa,' it does not mean that you can sing,"...more

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A PLAY OF GRAPHICS
(Published in March - May 1996 issue of Society Interiors)

- Roopa Sabnis-Pinge

"I do not practise as an interior designer, but now I am seriously thinking about it, because there is a lot of money in it." Laughs Shirish Sukhatme, as we sit chatting in his five-bedroom duplex apartment at Bandra, Bombay, wher he lives with his elderly parents, wife Swati and 12 year-old daughter, Samira. A practising architect and a visiting professor at the J J School of Architecture, Bombay. Sukhatme's work is characterised by a strong sense of graphics.

What sets it apart is its elegance, the graphical elements, though used in dynamic interplays, do not succumb to extravagance and never stoop so low as to look gimmicky....more

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INTERIORS
Ar.Shirish Sukhatme's Glass Office
(Published in Design Digest's edition of July 1996)

- Roopa Sabnis-Pinge

An architect's office is usually cluttered with models and photographs of the projects handled by his firm. It has a lot of people, and hopefully, a number of clients. There is bound to be noise, tempers - this is unavoidable - and clutter. An architect's office, in other words, is never a recommendation of the kind of work his firm is capable of doing.

In the architectural studios of Shirish Sukhatme, quite the opposite is strikingly true. If this is what Sukhatme's work is like, a client is likely to say, it's fine by me....more

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KITCHENS, BATHROOMS & BEDROOMS
(Published in the October-December, 1999
issue of the Design Source)

- Ar. Jim Samuel

"Designs should be functional and the top priority should be that of providing maximum comfort to the user", observes Prof. Sukhatme or "Sukhatme Sir" as he is respectfully addressed by a host of professionals who have been his students in the subjects of "Design" and "Basic Design" at various colleges including Sir J J College of Architecture and Rizvi College of Architecture.

Shirish Sukhatme graduated from the Sir. J J College of Architecture in 1976, obtained a masters degree from IIT Kharagpur in '78 and has established a flourishing practice in Mumbai. He is also a Govt. Valuer with a passion for creativity in design....more

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EXPERIENCE OF DISMANTLING AND RECONSTRUCTING
110 YRS OLD J.P.KHOJA SANITORIUM
(Presented at a workshop on conservation
of heritage bldg. at Mumbai at I.I.A.)

A building known as KHOJA SANITORIUM is a typical example of sea front old Sanitorium building constructed in the year 1886. As per the encrypted text this building was constructed in the year 1886. As per the encrypted text this building was constructed by one Mr.Zairabhoy Peerbhoy and was donated to the service of Khoja community. The building was inaugurated on 1st August 1886 by the then Governor of Bombay H.E.Lord Reay.

The building consists of 10 rooms of size 16'-0" x 36'-0" size connected by stone arched porch of size 23'-0" x 213'-0". The entire building consists of Porbander stone arches, Black Basalt masonry and decorative courses of Malad stone in between. ...more