Practice
VSPB ASSOCIATES is an international award-winning practice, the most significant one being the UIA 2030 Commendation Award conferred by International Union of Architects (UIA) & UN- Habitat, for which we competed with shortlisted entries of well-known firms like, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and others across the world. We also received the Outstanding Award by the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) among projects built in Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East besides winning the prestigious HUDCO Award by the Govt. of India for 3 consecutive years. VSPB’s project is also shortlisted by UNICEF & WHO as an exemplary case study across the globe and recognized by Govt. of India among top public space projects in the last 75 years. The firm is geared to making cities and landscapes better in future, and is capable of delivering projects of varied scale and complexity.
Our domains of operation are: Urban Design, Architectural Design, Landscape Design, Urban Planning, Ecological Planning, Heritage, Interior Design, Furniture Design, Graphic Design. Our core competence is in concept design, design development and related drawings/presentations of all types and scales of projects. We have well-recognized and highly qualified senior professionals associated with us. The body of our work includes not only projects, but also visions and ideas expressed in invited talks & lectures, writings, academic engagements and capacity building initiatives over last three decades. We consider ourselves as a part of the contemporary networked community having intellectual collaborations across the globe.
Our practice, therefore, takes clues from real-time project experiences, research inquiries and teaching exposures. Each project is seen as a unique opportunity and the notion of ‘site’ as a social ideological-temporal entity. Research-based design method is explored and context, programme and material are three habitual pointers lending specificity to each of these explorations. Initial outcomes often tend to be typological alluding to what is known as the concept design. It is developed further after interactions with client and stakeholders, and then, realized on ground. Many projects that we encounter, have high aspiration and restricted budget for which cost-optimization becomes a key factor at all possible levels. Construction details are accordingly kept simple to execute and robust enough for easy maintenance. The use of conveniently obtainable materials and locally available construction techniques are opted for smooth execution with value-addition. These granular realities prepare the ‘ground’ for our projects.
Essentially, a notion of urban, coupled with sensitivity towards landscape, forms the perspective of our practice.
Here, neither urban means mere physical setting of a project, nor landscape purposes faddish ‘beautification’. Instead, an operative idea of ‘landscape urbanism’ runs through many of our projects where landscape contributes to the creation of public infrastructure and to the making of public places to enrich ‘the way of life’.
Suptendu P. Biswas
Partner, VSPB Associates
Partners
Suptendu P. Biswas
Partner
Suptendu P. Biswas is a known urban thinker involved in consultancy, teaching, research and writing. His projects have been presented, published and exhibited in India and abroad and his research, writings and interviews have been covered in newspapers and journals and credited in scholarly articles and academic works in top institutions in India and abroad.
He worked as an expert consultant for Jaipur Smart City to advise on heritage and inner city renewal projects and contributed to Jaipur’s nomination as a “World Heritage City”. He has taught at top institutions in Delhi NCR and has been a visiting faculty member for post-grad courses at SPA-New Delhi. He was also a member of the Doctoral Committee at SPA-Bhopal, where he reviewed researches on diverse aspects of urban development. He has also been a member of the Advisory Board and Board of Studies in several institutes.
He was a recipient of prestigious Senior Fellowship (Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India). He is also a Life Fellow of Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) and Life Member of INTACH.
Vina Verghese Biswas
Partner
Vina Verghese Biswas is an international award-winning architect. She has been involved as the Lead Landscape Architect at VSPB Associates and has been involved in various scales of Landscape Design & Planning and Urban Regeneration projects along with other architectural projects.
She was the Project Lead VSPB Associates for a successfully completed ecological restoration project in Gurugram in the National Capital Region of India. This widely published project received several national and international awards and is recognised by UNICEF, UN-Habitat and WHO as an exemplary case study across the globe for its best practices of landscape design and alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals, SDG 2030.
She has a keen interest in academia and is presently a Visiting Faculty member in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi. She is a fellow member of the Indian Society of Landscape Architects (ISoLA) and International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA).
Large Scale Sustainable & Innovation Design
MVRDV | Netherlands
Project Management and Engineering Services
XPLORER Consultancy Services (P)Ltd. | Delhi, NCR
For Project Management & Monitoring, Engineering Services
Al Hatmy Engineering Consultancy LLC. | Muscat, Oman
Amberg Infocon Pvt. Ltd | Delhi, NCR
An Indian Subsidiary of Company of
Amberg Engineering AG | Switzerland
For Project Management & Monitoring, MEP Services, BIM
EPTISA | Kolkata & Spain
For Management & Engineering of Planning Projects.
Structure
Sardip Consulting Engineers | Kolkata & Delhi
For Structure & Foundation design and Soil engineering services
MB Geostructures Pvt. Ltd. | New Delhi
For Structural design, Geo-technical solutions.
Large Scale Interior Executions
RCSB EAST ASSOCIATES | Kolkata
Project management and execution for Hotels, Hospitals, Offices and other large-scale Interior works.
Research & Capacity Building
SEARCH | Kolkata & New Delhi
Trust for Sustainable Education and Action in Architecture.