Partner, architectureRED
Biju Kuriakose co-founded architectureRED, an architecture and urban design firm based out of Chennai, India. Having studied architecture in Mumbai, Biju received his Master’s Degree in Architecture and Urban design from Pratt Institute, New York.
aRED’s current projects include designing public streets and public spaces for the entire neighborhood of Adyar within the city of Chennai, developing masterplan for a new 150 acre mixed use township in Panvel, Navi Mumbai, master plans for mixed use developments in Tamil Nadu, a mixed use master plan for the city of Salalah in Oman, housing projects of varying scales in Chennai, bangalore and trivandrum as well as multiple institutional buildings within the Crescent and Hindustan Universities, Chennai.
architectureRED has won several national as well as international design awards including the World Architecture News Award for the “Best Urban design project” in 2009 for the masterplan of Nordhavnen in Copenhagen as well as IIA National Award in 2016 for “Airport city” in Oman. aRED also won the IIA TN state award for the Best institutional Project in 2021 for the “S” School project in Bangalore. In 2015, architectureRED made it to AD50, a selection of the top 50 design firms in the Indian sub-continent by Architectural Digest magazine.
Prior to founding architectureRED, Biju was an Associate and design director at FXFOWLE Architects, a leading architectural, planning and urban design firm based out of New York. Biju has been invited to several prestigious forums including Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance- New York, Pratt Institute and Columbia University, NY, as a speaker and studio critic. He was also invited to be part of the Goethe Institute’s Visitors Program 2017 in Germany, looking at water issues and studying the relationship of water to communities. He has been a member of the Board of Review at CEPT University, Ahmedabad since 2018. He currently teaches at School of Architecture and Planning, Anna University, Chennai as an External studio critic.
