Experience, enterprise
and a multidisciplinary
way of working.

Why ARCHISTRY

Design Intelligence.
People + Place.
Delivery Insight.

ARCHISTRY combines design ambition with an understanding of place, people and the realities that shape successful projects. Our work seeks to create architecture that is purposeful, context-responsive and enduring—while remaining viable, buildable and relevant to the way it will actually be used.

Across scales, we integrate architecture, urban thinking, specialist expertise and implementation insight to bring greater clarity from concept through delivery.

About Partners

Complementary perspectives.
One enterprising mindset.

Founder Principal, Probal Basu
Founder Principal

Probal Basu

Principal Architect & Urban Designer

Probal Basu is an architect and urban designer whose experience spans architectural practice, urban design, healthcare, real-estate development, design management and project leadership across New Delhi and Kolkata. Before ARCHISTRY, he held progressively senior responsibilities—managerial roles at Mani Group, Assistant General Manager at Emami Realty and Deputy General Manager at PS Group—developing a strong understanding of development economics, multidisciplinary coordination, regulatory processes and project implementation.

At ARCHISTRY, this breadth informs an architecture-led approach that combines design judgement, human-centric and contextual thinking with viability, buildability and delivery insight across scales.

Architecture · MIT, Manipal · 2006
Urban Design · CEPT University, Ahmedabad · 2008
COA · IUDI · IIA · IIID · Bengal Business Council
Partner, Sofia C. Basu
Partner

Sofia C. Basu

Administration · Education Insight · People & Operations

Sofia C. Basu brings to ARCHISTRY a complementary operational and human-centred perspective shaped by experience in corporate administration, client engagement and early-childhood education leadership. Her understanding of people, operations and institutional environments strengthens educational and people-centric work by connecting spatial design with user experience, organisational needs and everyday functioning.

Within ARCHISTRY, she contributes to practice administration, stakeholder communication, project coordination and education-sector insight—supporting an enterprising, multidisciplinary way of working.

M.Sc. (Economics) · MBA (Public Systems) · IMC Trained
Thought Leadership & Industry Engagement

Sharing ideas beyond the drawing board.

Founder Principal, Probal Basu participates in professional forums and industry conversations around architecture, urban design, real estate and the evolving built environment—bringing practitioner experience into wider discussions on cities, technology, development and change.

Panel Speaker · IGNITE × IUDI WB · Kolkata · 2026Urban Automation, Planning & the Future of Cities
Professional panel discussion at IGNITEIGNITE industry panelIGNITE speaker recognition
The Studio

A focused place to think, collaborate and build.

ARCHISTRY operates from its studio in New Town, Kolkata—a focused working environment for design development, client conversations, multidisciplinary coordination and the growth of the practice. The studio reflects the way we work: direct, collaborative and purpose-driven.

A growing practice. A collaborative studio. Opportunities to work, learn and build together.
ARCHISTRY studio principal workspaceARCHISTRY collaborative design studioARCHISTRY conference and design review room
How We Work

Boutique by intent.

Focused enough for direct principal involvement. Structured enough to address complex projects. Agile enough to assemble the right expertise for each assignment.

01 · DIRECT ACCESS

Principal-led delivery

Senior involvement remains central to design thinking, key decisions and client interaction.

02 · EXPERIENCE

Institutional rigour. Studio agility.

A focused practice supported by experience across design, real estate, development and multidisciplinary projects.

03 · COLLABORATION

Built to scale intelligently

A focused core supported by specialist consultants and collaborators selected around the needs of each project.

04 · VALUE

Design as a business decision

Design quality considered alongside feasibility, budget, constructability, risk, operations and long-term value.

Our Process

From opportunity to lasting value.

01UNDERSTANDBrief · Goals · Opportunity · Feasibility
02DEFINEConcept · Strategy · Planning · Phasing
03DEVELOPArchitecture · Structure · MEPF · Specialist Interfaces
04APPROVEStatutory Coordination · Consultants · Authorities
05DELIVERTender/GFC · Coordination · Site Review
06ESTABLISHHandover · Close-out · Long-term Performance

Client decisions, cost checks and multidisciplinary coordination continue across every stage.

Services

Design across scales.
Intelligence across the project lifecycle.

ARCHISTRY works across architecture, interiors, urban design and healthcare—bringing design thinking together with feasibility, coordination, implementation insight and long-term value.

01

ARCHITECTURE

Buildings shaped around purpose, context and value.

RESIDENTIAL · COMMERCIAL · CORPORATE · INSTITUTIONAL · HOSPITALITY · REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
02

INTERIORS

Environments that align identity, experience and performance.

RESIDENTIAL · CORPORATE · RETAIL · INSTITUTIONAL · HOSPITALITY
03

URBAN DESIGN

Strategic thinking across larger scales and evolving places.

TOWNSHIPS · MASTERPLANNING · SOCIAL HOUSING · ESTATE PLANNING · URBAN DESIGN GUIDELINES
04

HEALTHCARE

Specialist planning and integrated design for healthcare environments.

HOSPITALS · HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS · MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS · HEALTHCARE INTERIORS · INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS
ACROSS EVERY SERVICEBrief & Feasibility · Design Management · Multidisciplinary Coordination · Value Engineering · Approvals & Delivery Strategy · Implementation Support
Collaborators

Integrated expertise.
One coordinated team.

ARCHISTRY brings together a coordinated network of specialist expertise for healthcare and institutional projects, integrating healthcare planning, architecture, engineering, building systems, regulatory coordination, sustainability and landscape within one project framework. Beyond healthcare, we are equally open to assembling and leading multidisciplinary teams across sectors—offering clients a coordinated, single-point framework from design strategy through specialist integration and implementation.

ARCHISTRYDesign & Overall Coordination
S. K. MallickSenior Advisor — Healthcare & Institutional Projects
Swasti Engineers & AssociatesStructural Engineering
Saent IndiaMEPF · Building Systems · Sustainability
Layers Design StudioLandscape Architecture
i-buildRegulatory & Statutory Coordination
Specialist PartnersAs required by project scale, discipline and complexity
Integrated healthcare expertise—from strategy and planning to design, systems and implementation.Specialist expertise, assembled around the project—not the other way around.
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