The Prof. Oommen Thomas archives is the repository of the architectural work and writing of one of Kerala's early architectural modernists. Prof. Oommen was trained as part of the first batch of architecture in Kerala (1964-69) at the College of Engineering Trivandrum, University of Kerala and went on to become its first full-time professor and longest-serving head of architecture (1979-1990). His built work largely consists of institutional buildings clustered around Trivandrum as well as churches and private residences across southern Kerala.

This archive also contains multiple unbuilt institutional projects conceived as part of the consultancy cell that he led at the school. This work spans from the 1970's to the early 1990's and is indicative of his training in an international style influenced modernism (see for e.g. his B.Arch thesis) as well as inflections resulting from documentation of local wooden architecture from the late 1970's.

See here for a biography of Prof. Oommen and a personal statement.