Ramu Katakam has been a practicing architect for the last 40 years. Starting with a private practice, he subsequently turned to research on the traditional buildings of India, further exploring themes like lightness and being in the buildings he designed. One of his houses was shortlisted for the Aga Khan award for architecture in 2007, and two others (the Dilli Haat and the Syrian Orthodox church in Delhi) have been described in the latest edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's encyclopedia of world architecture.
