Studio Matrx Monthly · Volume 1 · Issue 5 · October 2026
Amogh N P
✦ In loving memory of Amogh N P — Architect · Designer · Visionary ✦
Travels
✦ Journeys · in Amogh’s footsteps

Amogh in Badami

In May 2015 Amogh N P travelled with his family to the old Chalukyan capital of Badami in north Karnataka. They saw the sixth-century cave temples cut into the red sandstone cliffs above Agastya Lake, then the temple complex at Pattadakal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the temples of Aihole, among the earliest stone temples in India. Years before he studied architecture, this was where he first walked through it.

Badami · Pattadakal · Aihole 9–10 May 2015 14 photographs
Amogh N P at the Badami cave temples, Karnataka, May 2015
Amogh N P at the Badami cave temples, Karnataka, May 2015

01Badami

The rock-cut cave temples of Badami above Agastya Lake, and the family on the road there.

Amogh N P with his family on the way to Badami, Karnataka, May 2015
Amogh N P with his family on the way to Badami, Karnataka, May 2015
Amogh N P with his family on the way to Badami, Karnataka, May 2015
Amogh N P at the Badami cave temples, Karnataka, May 2015
Amogh N P at the Badami cave temples, Karnataka, May 2015
Amogh N P with his family at lunch in Badami, Karnataka, May 2015
Amogh N P with his family at lunch in Badami, Karnataka, May 2015
Amogh N P with his family at lunch in Badami, Karnataka, May 2015

02Pattadakal

Among the eighth-century temples of Pattadakal, where the northern and southern styles of temple building stand side by side.

Amogh N P among the temples of Pattadakal, Karnataka, May 2015
Amogh N P among the temples of Pattadakal, Karnataka, May 2015
Amogh N P among the temples of Pattadakal, Karnataka, May 2015
Amogh N P among the temples of Pattadakal, Karnataka, May 2015
Amogh N P among the temples of Pattadakal, Karnataka, May 2015
Amogh N P among the temples of Pattadakal, Karnataka, May 2015

Long before he studied architecture, he walked among the Chalukyan temples.