ETT is a young investigative architectural practice with the focus on assimilating and synthesizing the diverse and often contradictory aspects that make up the building process. Each project is seen as a test-bed to raise questions that deal with significant issues related to the built environment and its relationship, most importantly, to the place and its people. The practice also acknowledges and attempts to respond to a changing global cultural and creative space - and attempts to operate within this milieu. The founding partners of ETT are Jude D'Souza and Suprio Bhattacharjee. Both architects are based out of the city of Mumbai, where they are enagaged not only in architectural and inerdisciplinary practice, but in teaching and research as well. Jude D'Souza and Suprio Bhattacharjee are also responsible for the design of what will be one of the city's most significant new public buildings - the Cidco Exhibition and Congress Centre, currently being executed in Vashi, Navi Mumbai.ETT follows the collaborative engagement model and operates within a loose framework of an ecology of participants, who plug-in as and when necessary for various projects. These participants are valued for their contribution to the overall richness and complexity of the project`s evolutionary resolution. As such the practice celebrates the collective over the individual, the participatory over the exclusive. Jude D’Souza is a graduate of the Sir JJ School of Architecture [2003] and has been practising and teaching in the city. Suprio Bhattacharjee is a graduate of the Sir JJ School of Architecture [2001] and is currently a faculty at the Balwant Sheth School of Architecture in Mumbai. Between them, they share a rich body of work and diverse experience at varying scales of work.