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The Team
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The team works with thorough inquiry, contextual insight, and comprehensive knowledge acquired through a wide range of projects in architecture, interiors, products, exhibitions, and furniture design.
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At Artha Studio, our constant endeavor is to innovate and manifest the most appropriate design solutions for multifarious design challenges. Extensive research, analytical approach, creative acumen, and holistic ingenuity are the tools we utilize to bring each project to a successful culmination. ​The superior execution of noble design with care does take time. Our team tries to anticipate the challenges well in time and plans for the design deliverables in advance to enable seamless execution.​ Our team consists of individuals who are open to collaboration and work with the consistency and tenacity required to produce design outcomes that add value and quality.

Saurabh Malpani, B.Arch.
(Principal, Co-founder)
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Saurabh Malpani is a principal at Artha Studio, a sustainable design firm, located in Pune. In his initial years, he has apprenticed with great masters, Geoffrey Bawa in Sri Lanka and Alvaro Siza Vieira in Portugal.
Saurabh received his Degree in Architecture from the School of Architecture at CEPT, Ahmedabad. He studied at TU Delft, Netherlands and studied further at FAUP Portugal.
He has interest in all aspects of built environment, starting from tiny nature’s creations, utility and lifestyle products, art, interior design, architecture, conservation, urban interventions and policy making which shape society and world.
He is actively involved in learning from craftsman and local karagirs. He explores every project with a new approach aligned with research and a rigorous design process. Resilience and agility with proficiency in design is his talent, which helps each design to become simple yet unique and timeless. He has great respect for building resources and with time he has mastered the use of salvaged materials. He believes if the building elements are reused, repurposed and recycled mindfully the design culmination will be exceptional. Whether reclaimed material is wood, stone, brick, steel, brass, copper, glass- he loves to indulge in giving them a fresh life.
In his design process, intuition and rational reasoning go hand in hand thus doing equal justice to function, the spatial experience and aura of a space. He puts forward a conscious effort to go beyond utility and aesthetics. His notions of graceful aging of a building, frugal use of materials and sensitivity towards nature enrich the project. He enjoys collaborating with people from different walks of life and cultures.
He works with rural, semi urban, urban, government, semi government, NGO, private and corporate patrons.
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Ashka Naik | BID, MAPD, PhD (expected completion 2025)
(Principal, Co-founder)
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Ashka Naik has more than two decades of international experience working across food and climate justice movements, corporate accountability issues, multilateral policymaking, women’s rights, and sustainable design issues. She has served in several leadership roles at mission-driven organizations in the U.S. and India.
Currently Naik serves as the Chief Research and Policy Officer at an international human rights organization, where she leads strategic program development, critical corporate research, international policy work, and equity-centered analysis focused on power and democracy.
Naik serves on several other advisory and expert committees focused on public health, environment, food systems governance, accountability, and sovereignty, such as the Invited Faculty of the Nova Institute for Health of People, Places, and Panet, the Steering Committee of Geneva Global Health Hub, and the Independent Expert Group on Corporate Accountability at the United Nations University. She continues to work closely with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Committee on World Food Security’s (CFS) ecosystem, in addition to providing interventions for several United Nations’ treaty making processes, such as the Pandemic Treaty, the Business and Human Rights Treaty, and the Plastics Treaty.
Naik is currently pursuing her doctorate degree from the University of Massachusetts Boston, investigating the intersectionality across food security, women’s rights, and policy infrastructure in South Asia. Her undergraduate and graduate education has been in the fields of architectural design and sustainability from India and the UK. Naik’s research and policy works have been published in prominent international media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Al Jazeera, and academic platforms such as Stanford Social Innovation Review, World Nutrition, and Development.
Long Term Collaborator

Vinit Patil
Architect

Interior Designer
Aashna Parakh

Aruna Chauhan
Interior Designer

Architect
Gayatri Kodre

Aditi Agashe
Architect

Harshad Rathod
Architect
Present Team:
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Tejal Vaze, Nirantari Shinde, Anjali Wankhede, Kalyan Mudris, Vanshi Bhatnagar, Soumitra Magdum
Former Collaborators:
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Amruta Sohoni, Anisha Rathi, Bhavana Chaudhary, Deepak Birhade,, Deepti Otari, Devashree Bhave, Dhanashree Gugale, Gayatri Mujumdar, Haripriya Dalal, Meghana Bhandari, Minna Bansal, Rachana Dinde, Sai Sharanya Satoor, Sayali Lokare, Sayali Kulkarni, Shardul Shah, Shubham Surana, Shweta Potdar, Vaishali Chellapa
Former Interns:
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Abhignya B, Anandkumar Singh, Anish Mutakekar, Arjun Sukan V, Ashish Nadiapara, Devyani Chandak, Divya Gyanchandani, Rucha Jagatamka, Hiral Nanavaty, Jude Botelho, Kanika Aggarwal, Khyati Dani, Lakshya Gothi, M.S. Himashiny, Mayuresh Hadke, Manasi Wagh, Nidal Rizwy, Nirali Prajapati, Nidhi Sahuji, Nisarg Mehta, Parth Lad, Pavash Dhonde, Piyush Bhanushali, Piyush Agrawal, Pooja Kubavat, Punit Panchal, Rachana Solanke, Rani Munot, Richa Surati, Rishabh Jain, Rushank Patel, Samiksha Kolapkar, Sandeep Biswas, Sapna Lakhe, Satyam Pitroda, Shanu Rathi, Shreya Darji, Suraj Kalani, Swarali Pasalkar, Tanmay Bhavsar, Tanvi Patel, Vighnesh D, Vivek Chattbar, Vivek Gajjar, Yash Vaghasia, Zaid Ajmeri
Collaborative Design Studios

PMA Madhushala

Archi Tribes

Studio Alternatives