Video: Pearl Academy of Fashion, Jaipur

Our quest to seek out talented film makers took us to Rajashtan, India. Here journalist and film producer Priya Krishnamoorthy takes us on a tour of the Pearl Fashion Academy in Jaipur, where Morphogenesis Architects illustrate how when it comes to designing a truly forward-thinking building, the answers might just lie in the past.
See more images of the Pearl Academy of Fashion in Jaipur, by India-based Morphogenesis Architects
Director: Priya Krishnamoorthy
Direction Associate: Pooja Krishnamoorthy
Director of Photography: DK Gautam
Editor: Sameer Bansdawala
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Music courtesy: Rajasthan Roots
Special thanks to: Vikram Iyer, Inshad, Aditya Bhasin, Madhumita Pyne, Pearl Academy of Fashion( Jaipur), Team at Morphogenesis
Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).
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