Madhusudhan Chalsani

Madhusudhan Chalasani is the Principal Architect and Founder of Studio MADe — an idea-driven practice with bases in Hyderabad and Pamplona, Spain, whose work is as much a product of cultural exchange as it is of design rigour.

Founded in 2007, Studio MADe operates at the intersection of architecture and the public realm — engaging with competitions not as exercises in form, but as a means of addressing real societal concerns. The studio's collaborators span geographies and disciplines, bringing together architects, landscape architects, graphic artists, and researchers in a model of practice built on virtual exchange and shared inquiry.

The studio's accolades reflect both the range and depth of this approach — from the Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction and the Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award, to winning the international competition for the Suncheon Art Platform in South Korea, a building unveiled in 2022 that went on to receive the Korea Spatial Culture Award the same year. Most recently, in 2025, the studio received second prize for the restoration and extension of the historic Pheromonic Theatre in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia.

At the heart of Studio MADe's practice is a belief that architecture must connect with collective memory — and that truly enduring spatial solutions are those that transcend both function and cultural boundaries. It is a conviction that makes Madhusudhan's presence at a memorial exhibition honouring B. V. Doshi not just fitting, but resonant.