A seasoned and innovative architect with over three decades of proven expertise in conceiving and bringing to fruition a diverse array of residential, commercial, healthcare, and public projects. Graduated from the College of Engineering Trivandrum in 1991, his journey began as a freelancing architect, evolving into the establishment of Akbar Khan Associates in 1994. Through the years, he has cultivated a distinctive style and approach, earning the trust and loyalty of a discerning clientele.
TSOL
In architecture, the shape of life is a poetic way of talking about how buildings are shaped around everyday life patterns.For instance, how people move and pause in a home, how they meet, rest, argue, celebrate or feel safe.A kitchen becomes central because family life gathers there; streets curve so that people can slow down and linger there-not because straight lines are more efficient.What shape does human life naturally want to take, and how can architecture support it?
Akbar Khan Architect
The Founder & Principal Architect
Our Motto
Let’s Shape Life Together
Architecture that is not only functional but connects with a deep human need for harmony, expression and belonging.
"Each thing has an outer as well as an inner meaning every external form is complimented by an inner reality which is its hidden, internal essence. The manifest is the sensible form, that which emphasises the quantitative aspect which is most readily comprehensible, such as the shape of a building, the form of a pool, the body of a man. The hidden is the essential or qualitative aspect which all things possess. In order to know a thing is in its completeness, one must not only seek its outward and ephemeral reality but also its essential and inward reality-that in which the eternal beauty of every object resides."
-The Sense of Unity