Verendra Wakhloo
Principal Architect & Town Planner
Kashmir born, Verendra Wakhloo spent his growing up years in the Gangetic plains in Bhagalpur, Bihar. Bounty of the surroundings, the sounds of Sarod and the temple bells, the deep and bright colors of sky are some of the impressions that he remembers from those days. His twenty years long stay in Germany, from the age of ten onward, exposed him to the high technology driven society that spilled into his architectural education at the Technische Hochschule, Karlsruhe where under the influence of Prof. Fritz Haller his exploration into the modernism started. Leaving behind the sounds of the piano, the church bell and the metal grey sky- inspired by Indian Architects Correa, Doshi and Jain - Verendra returned to India where his initial work involved a search for an Indian identity. Leading to a synthesis through ‘a dialogue’ he attempts to move from the known to the unknown for his work, in search of ‘timeless principles’.
