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EDITORIAL
EMERGING LANDSCAPE PRACTICES
We begin the year 2026, with a special issue that profiles twenty one landscape practices established since 2012–13. While most are based in western (Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Jaipur) and southern (Bengaluru) cities—with a smaller presence in the north (Jalandhar) and east (Kolkata)—their work extends across far wider geographies. Location, clearly, no longer limits reach.
The majority of these studios operate as proprietorships, with some founded in partnership with architects and urban designers, offering integrated services across architecture, urban design, interiors, and landscape. There is a diversity of contemporary practice models— hybrid setups, small and experimental studios, and nonconventional approaches to scale, typology, representation, and societal engagement. Landscape architecture today is more widely understood and increasingly valued by authorities and decision-makers, particularly for its transformative role in public spaces and urban parks.
Equally significant is the widening of professional engagement. Landscape architects now work not only with allied consultants but also with bureaucrats, politicians, NGOs, RWAs, and market associations. As public spaces become key arenas of intervention, issues of participation, inclusivity, affordability, sustainability, and long-term maintenance have moved to the centre of practice—concerns that were once marginal or altogether absent. This expanded terrain has made landscape practice more complex, culturally rooted, and intellectually fertile...
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THE VOICE OF INDIA’S LANDSCAPES
TRIBUTE: MADHAV DHANANJAYA GADGIL
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CONTOURS OF CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE PRACTICE IN INDIA
A MANIFESTO FOR A PROFESSION IN FORMATION
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| CURRENT ISSUE LA85 |
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THE VOICE OF INDIA’S LANDSCAPES
MADHAV DHANANJAYA GADGIL
Gurudas Nulkar
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LOOK AROUND, CHOOSE YOUR OWN GROUND
EMERGING LANDSCAPE PRACTICES
| emerging landscape practices: profiles
ANKUR JAJPURIA
STUDIO ASPIRE, JAIPUR
ARJUN SHARMA AND GAURAV SHETTY
GROUNDSTORY: LANDSCAPE + ARCHITECTURE, MUMBAI
BHAKTI THAKOOR
ENVIROSCAPE, MUMBAI
DEEPTHI C.B.
DHARITRI LANDSCAPE, BENGALURU
DHARA MITTAL AND NISHANT MITTAL
STUDIO 23N72E, AHMEDABAD
GAURI SATAM AND TEJESH PATIL
UNTAG ARCHITECTURE & INTERIORS, MUMBAI
HARISH VANGARA
IAMMIES LANDSCAPES, HYDERABAD
HEMALI SAMANT
HEMALI LANDSCAPE STUDIO, MUMBAI
HEMANSHU TANEJA AND ADITI TANEJA
STUDIO HA, JAIPUR
KAVITA KEDAWAT
EXPANSE STUDIO, JAIPUR
KRIPA K. BABY
THINKING HATS, CALICUT
NIDHI PARIKH AND NARENDRA MANGWANI
URBSCAPES, AHMEDABAD
NOOPUR SEJPAL AND ZUBIN PAREKH
SEJPAL AND PAREKH ASSOCIATES, MUMBAI
PARAS SAREEN
PARAS SAREEN & ASSOCIATES, JALANDHAR
PRACHI PANVALKAR
VOCAL HABITATS, BENGALURU
PREETANSHI SINGH AND SHANTESH KELVEKAR
READING GROUNDS, BENGALURU
SACHIN UBBARADA AND ADITI RAJ
STUDIO CONFLUENCE, BENGALURU
SANKALPA PATEL AND JAIMISH DHAMELIYA
SCULPTING GROUNDS LLP, AHMEDABAD
SMRUTI BALVALLI
NATURE NARRATIVES, BENGALURU
SUJOY DAS
INSCAPE DESIGN STUDIO, KOLKATA
VARNA SHASHIDHAR
VSLA, BENGALURU
| looking ahead
A PROMISING FUTURE
| landscape survey
CONTOURS OF CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE PRACTICE IN INDIA
A MANIFESTO FOR A PROFESSION IN FORMATION
Shilpa Bakshi Chandawarkar and Vyusti Agarwalla
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