Architecture & Urban Design

Buildings that answer the site first.

A fourteen-person practice working across residential, cultural and adaptive reuse projects.

Concrete residential architecture by Kessler Bright

The practice

Founded 2011, still fourteen people

We've turned down growth twice to keep every project running through the same two founding partners. A building designed by committee reads like one — ours don't.

Every project starts with a site study before a single elevation gets drawn: light, wind, water table, the neighbours' windows.

46

buildings completed

3

design awards

14

architects & designers

Architectural detail of a building facade

What we practice

Residential Architecture

Ground-up houses, ours from first sketch to handover.

Adaptive Reuse

Old structures, reworked without erasing what made them worth keeping.

Urban & Masterplanning

Site-scale work for developers and institutions.

Interiors & Detailing

We draw the joinery too — not handed off after the shell.

Selected work

Alibaug concrete house project

Alibaug Concrete House

Residential · 2023

Fort warehouse conversion project

Fort Warehouse Conversion

Adaptive reuse · 2022

Lonavala hillside retreat project

Lonavala Hillside Retreat

Residential · 2021

From our clients

They spent six weeks studying the site before drawing a single wall. It shows.

V. Rao

Alibaug project client

Turned a derelict warehouse into the best office we've ever worked in.

Fort Studio Collective

Commercial client

Still the same two partners on our project from pitch to handover, two years later.

The Shenoy Family

Lonavala project client

Working with us

A site visit and brief conversation, followed by a written proposal — no cost for the first meeting.

Start a project

First site conversations are unpaid — we want to know if it's a fit before either of us commits.

Email
studio@kesslerbright.in
Phone
+91 22 4022 8810
Hours
Mon–Fri · 9am – 6pm
Location
Fort, Mumbai