Randhir Singh (b.1976) received his Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Science degrees from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York in 1999. He spent fifteen years working at award-winning architecture and design firms in New York. In 2013, he moved to New Delhi to develop his photographic practice focusing on architecture and urbanism.
In 2016, Singh’s series exploring industrial architecture and the urban landscape, Water Towers, was shown at the Pondy Photo Festival. Photographed in portrait format, his project sought to connect the monumental, and often decorative, water towers to the prosaic housing colonies and parks around them. This project was included in the exhibition, Body Building at the Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai (2019). Continuing his interest in the urban landscape, his photographs examining waterways and hydraulic architecture were included in the publication and exhibition, Yamuna River Project (2017). The Yamuna River Project book was awarded the Deutsches Architekturmuseum Architecture Book award for 2018.
Over the last four years, Singh has been photographing government housing colonies in Delhi. This ongoing project, CPWD explores socialist housing, typologies, modernism and national identity. Photographs from CPWD were included in the exhibition, When is Space? at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur (2018).
Singh has been collaborating with the artist, Seher Shah on numerous projects that combine photography, architecture and drawing. Their recent project, Studies in Form, is a series of cyanotype prints that builds on these overlaps to further an ongoing interest into concepts of architectural scale and sculptural intent. This project was included in the exhibition, Bearing Points at the Dhaka Art Summit (2018) and at the Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2019).
Administrative Block with Institute Main Building: east facade, 2019
Pigment print
3 sizes available
11 × 14.67 in (27.9 × 37.3 cm)
22 × 29.3 in (55.9 × 74.4 cm)
33 × 44 in (83.8 × 111.7 cm)
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Institute Main Building: west facade, 2019
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3 sizes available
14.67 × 11 in (37.3 × 27.9 cm)
29.3 × 22 in (74.4 × 55.9 cm)
44 × 33 in (111.7 × 83.8 cm)
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Institute Main Building: west facade, 2019
Pigment print
3 sizes available
14.67 × 11 in (37.3 × 27.9 cm)
29.3 × 22 in (74.4 × 55.9 cm)
44 × 33 in (111.7 × 83.8 cm)
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Institute Main Building, Administrative Block and ramp to Dogra Hall, 2019
Pigment print
3 sizes available
11 × 14.67 in (27.9 × 37.3 cm)
22 × 29.3 in (55.9 × 74.4 cm)
33 × 44 in (83.8 × 111.7 cm)
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Ramp leading to Dogra Hall, 2019
Pigment print
3 sizes available
14.67 × 11 in (37.3x27.9 cm)
29.3 × 22 in (74.4 × 55.9 cm)
44 × 33 in (111.7 × 83.8 cm)
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Administrative Block and hyperbolic-paraboloid roof of Dogra Hall, 2019
Pigment print
3 sizes available
14.67 × 11 in (37.3 × 27.9 cm)
29.3 × 22 in (74.4 × 55.9 cm)
44 × 33 in (111.7 × 83.8 cm)
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Engineering Block: helical staircase, 2019
Pigment print
3 sizes available
11 × 13.75 in (27.9 × 34.9 cm)
22 × 27.5 in (55.9 × 69.8 cm)
33 × 41.25 in (83.8 × 104.8 cm)
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Engineering Block: staircase, 2019
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3 sizes available
13.75 × 11 in (34.9 × 27.9 cm)
27.5 × 22 in (69.8 × 55.9 cm)
41.25 × 33 in (104.8 × 83.8 cm)
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Engineering Block: breeze block (detail), 2019
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3 sizes available
15 × 10 in (38.1 × 25.4 cm)
30 × 20 in (76.2 × 50.8 cm)
45 × 30 in (114.3 × 76.2 cm)
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External staircase to Gymnasium, Student Activity Centre, 2019
Pigment print
3 sizes available
14.67 × 11 in (37.3 × 27.9 cm)
29.3 × 22 in (74.4 × 55.9 cm)
44 × 33 in (111.7 × 83.8 cm)
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