Team | Field architects

Founded by Faiza Khan and Suril Patel in 2017, Field Architects is a nomadic practice shaped by cognitive travel, vernacular ways of living, and critical spatial readings. Moving between Ahmedabad and Ladakh seasonally, the studio works like a caravan. Its practice reinterprets indigenous forms and craft traditions through a contemporary lens, bridging geometry, material, and memory.

Field engages with projects across varied typologies and scales, approaching each with the same clarity of purpose and respect for context. Working with a multidisciplinary team of architects and artisans built over the years, the studio brings traditional systems into dialogue with contemporary methods to create architecture that is rooted, responsive, and finely crafted.

Field Architects has received national and international recognition for work that is noted for its sensitivity, innovation, and contribution to sustainable, resilient futures.

Ar. Suril Patel
Founding Partner

Suril Patel has worked with Serie Architects, in Mumbai, Beijing, and London for about a decade, and experienced working with Studio Mumbai for Ganga Maki Textile Studio in Uttarakhand. He pursued his B Arch in 2005 from IED, Gujarat. He regards processes related to design, representation, and construction as the fundamental aspects of the practice and is a perfectionist for details. His methodical approach, engineering mindset always push design boundaries.

Ar. Faiza Khan
Founding Partner

Faiza Khan earned her B Arch from AoA, Mumbai, and pursued M Arch from Barcelona Institute of Architecture in 2011. She has worked with Serie Architects, Malik Architecture, Stantec, and Studio Mumbai. She is an avid learner, and observant towards the local context and lifestyle that help her mould, appropriate, and execute the wide variety and scales of projects with utmost sincerity. She is trained under Ruedi Krebs, a Swiss master artisan, for lime and earthen finishes while working on Ganga Maki Textile Studio.

For the past few years, they have actively collaborated on adaptive reuse and conservation projects of various scales with Achi Association India, a non-profit organization working to safeguard the outstanding but endangered cultural heritage in the Himalayas.

They have curated and conducted the two-year Passive Solar and Earth Building course, and have worked on a range of passive-solar buildings with SECMOL, along with research and development of earthen systems at HIAL – Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh.