Ahmedabad, India — Est. 2023
Hitarth Dave Architects designs bungalows, row houses, apartments and commercial buildings across Ahmedabad — carrying each one from first concept through 3D visualisation to the last site visit.
The Practice
Hitarth Dave Architects is a small architecture studio in Ahmedabad, founded in 2023 by Hitarth Dave. The work runs across private bungalows and row houses, apartments, commercial interiors and institutional buildings.
Across five years of practice the studio has kept a deliberate hold on the stages most often handed away — modelling detailed enough to make real decisions from, drawings resolved down to the junction, and a regular presence on site while the building goes up.
What comes out of it is architecture drawn from its context rather than imported into it: planned around orientation, shade and the way an Ahmedabad summer actually behaves.
Hitarth Dave
Founder & Principal Architect
The Founder
With over five years in practice, I work on architecture that blends creativity, functionality and precision — from the first plan through to the finished building.
I started out as a Junior Architect at HM Architects in Ahmedabad, working in the planning team across a range of projects. Three years alongside senior architects is where the design and planning habits were formed, and where I learned how a drawing survives contact with a site.
I founded Hitarth Dave Architects in March 2023 to do that work end to end — planning and design, 3D modelling and rendering detailed enough to decide from, and supervision on site until the building matches what was drawn. The studio is now four of us.
Founder
Hitarth Dave Architects
Self-employed · Ahmedabad
Junior Architect
HM Architects
Full-time · Ahmedabad
Bachelor of Architecture
Kalol Institute of Architecture and Design
B.Arch · Treasurer, NASA India (university level)
The studio is a team of 4, based in Ahmedabad, India.
Expertise
Nothing here is scoped by a price list. Each project is quoted on its own brief, plot and stage — talk to the studio and you'll get a straight answer on what it takes.
Establishing the idea — how a building meets its site, its climate and the people who will live in it.
Space planning, massing and form-making resolved against brief, budget and byelaws before a single line is finalised.
A single hand across facade and interior, so material, light and detail carry through from the street to the last room.
Orientation, shading, ventilation and locally appropriate materials — designed for the Ahmedabad climate rather than in spite of it.
Removing the guesswork — seeing and resolving the building completely before it is built.
Photoreal visualisation of the finished building, so decisions on material, colour and proportion are made with certainty.
Working drawings and junction detailing, coordinated across structural, electrical and plumbing consultants.
Protecting the design on site — the stage where most projects quietly lose what made them good.
Regular site presence, contractor coordination and quality checks that hold the built result to the drawing.
Early-stage consultation that turns a brief, a plot and a budget into a concept worth committing to.
Bungalows, row houses, tenements, duplexes and apartments — including redevelopment on tight society plots.
Offices, showrooms, retail and commercial complexes.
Educational, community and public buildings.
Selected Work
Private Bungalow — Ahmedabad, India
A modern residence defined by graceful curved forms, exposed brick cladding, crisp white walls, expansive corner glazing, and clean minimalist detailing—creating a timeless facade with warmth, elegance, and contemporary character.
Residential Interior — Ahmedabad, India
3D VisualisationAn open kitchen and dining set out in a warm neutral palette — fluted cabinetry, a glazed display run, honed stone and concealed cove lighting, resolved in 3D before a single unit was ordered.
In Motion
Photographs flatten an interior. A short walk through a finished home shows how light moves across the veneer, how the ceiling steps down, and how one room hands over to the next.
0:12Completed interior
Veneer and stone detailing, coved lighting and a curved bay — the parts of an interior that only read properly in motion.
Process
Most of what goes wrong on a building goes wrong quietly, between drawing and site. Keeping both under one roof is how that gets caught.
0:10On site
A reinforced concrete frame going up under supervision — the stage where drawings either hold or quietly get value-engineered away.
Understanding the brief, the site, the budget and how you actually want to live or work.
Planning options and massing studies — the idea tested before it becomes expensive to change.
Drawings developed to construction standard, with materials and junctions resolved.
Realistic renders that let you sign off on the building before it exists.
Coordination with contractors and consultants, with quality checked against the drawings.
A finished building that matches what was promised at concept stage.
Contact
A first conversation costs nothing and usually saves a great deal later. Send a message, or call the studio directly.
The more you can say about the site and stage, the more useful the first reply will be.