Having grown up with a fascination for beautiful spaces, Ahsan Ansari graduated from the Raheja College of Architecture, Mumbai in 1994. He set up his independent practice 23 years ago and his array of work ranges from urban residences, and weekend retreats to retail spaces and offices. The essence of his work is based on a set of intangibles: intuition, emotion, shared memories & experience. Ahsan who is also the founder of Clay Architecture and Interiors as multiple celebrity homes to his credit including Nikhil Advani’s weekend home at Alibaug, Arti & Shanta’s house at Kashid, Mukesh Talreja’s house at Alta Mount road, Harish Shah’s house at Bandra, Good Earth store at Raghuvanshi Mills and many others. His design philosophy could be described as – India meets Geoffrey Bawa. He takes inspiration from a time when Geoffrey Bawa once said, “When one delights as much as I do in planning a building & having it built, I find it impossible to describe the exact steps in an analytical or dogmatic way.  I have a very strong conviction that it is impossible to explain architecture in words; I have always enjoyed seeing buildings but seldom enjoyed reading about them. Architecture cannot be totally explained but must be experienced.”