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Kakani Associates is a practice established by Surya and Jaai Kakani, as a collaborative between architecture and design in 1995 each informing the other and subsequently informing a way of life.

An underlying ethos of the practice has been to achieve efficiency in operation, minimize waste and match form and expression closely to the imperatives of the chosen construction systems and processes, broadly related to sustainability along with the habitual essence of buildings.

The practice mainstreams all these concerns through various building types of schools, hospitals and public institutions which has been published and acknowledged in various journals and conferences.

The practice has been naturally informed through Jaai and Surya’s strong academic linkages with architecture and design institutions as they consider academia and practice as mutually nurturing each other.

Recognizing Surya Kakani’s contribution to architecture practice and continued collaboration with academia, from April 2017 he was appointed as Dean Faculty of Architecture CEPT University, a position he held till June 2020.

The practice was awarded the Michael Ventris Award 2021 for their work on the timbrel construction.


Team - 

Raaj Ranpura | Rahul Katelia  | Prakriti Saxena | Kumbhan Vaya | Vagmi Shah | Mahek Ruparelia | Ayush Kohli

visit us

Thank you for visiting us. We are still in the process of building our website, and request you to bear with the glitches and unrefined content till we are able to set it up :)


Kakani Associates is a practice established by Surya and Jaai Kakani, as a collaborative between architecture and design in 1995 each informing the other and subsequently informing a way of life.

An underlying ethos of the practice has been to achieve efficiency in operation, minimize waste and match form and expression closely to the imperatives of the chosen construction systems and processes, broadly related to sustainability along with the habitual essence of buildings.

The practice mainstreams all these concerns through various building types of schools, hospitals and public institutions which has been published and acknowledged in various journals and conferences.

The practice has been naturally informed through Jaai and Surya’s strong academic linkages with architecture and design institutions as they consider academia and practice as mutually nurturing each other.

Recognizing Surya Kakani’s contribution to architecture practice and continued collaboration with academia, from April 2017 he was appointed as Dean Faculty of Architecture CEPT University, a position he held till June 2020.

The practice was awarded the Michael Ventris Award 2021 for their work on the timbrel construction.


Team - 

Raaj Ranpura | Rahul Katelia  | Prakriti Saxena | Kumbhan Vaya | Vagmi Shah | Mahek Ruparelia | Ayush Kohli

visit us