GDK Designs

Ar. Girish Dariyav Karnawat graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT, Ahmedabad in 1992. He worked with a few firms in India and in Europe till 2001. After experimenting with several areas of work and gaining valuable work experience in the studios of Ar. Kiran Pandya, Ar. Bimal Patel, Ar. Leo Pereira, Ar. Bijoy Jain and Ar. Ralph Baenziger, he established his own practice in 2001-2002. He has designed and executed most of his projects himself across several states. He continues to work closely with his craftsmen on and off the construction sites as also provides project management and Architectural Supervision on an everyday basis to all his projects. His practice determines his journey in seeking the unfamiliar and pushing thresholds to achieve what is contextually appropriate. Intense and elaborate conceptual stage followed through sustained design development and into the meticulous working drawings, following his unshakable faith in mediums of exploration such as sketches, manual drawings and rendering, study models coupled with present day software’s. All of his built and unbuilt projects have won several prestigious awards at both regional and national levels. Apart from practice, he is deeply involved with academics and documentation of vernacular architecture. Other than Architecture, he loves cooking, travelling, riding his motorbike or driving his car and trekking in the Himalayas.