Multipolis Mumbai : Architecture and our City

Design
Panel Discussion
Wednesday, 4th April 2012
From 6:30pm to 8:00pm (IST)
Studio X, 4th Floor, Kitab Mahal, Fort, Mumbai - 400001.
Free

Details

Multipolis Mumbai premiers with 'Architecture and our city'. This dialogue, brought to you by Avid Learning in association with Studio X and Time Out India will focus on the relationship between architecture and Mumbai, and their influence on one another paying special attention to urban planning issues and its future.

Faculty

Brinda Somaya

Brinda Somaya

Architect and Urban Conservationist

Brinda Chinnappa Somaya, Architect and Urban Conservationist completed her Master of Arts degree from Smith College, USA after graduating from the Sir J. J. College of Architecture, Mumbai. She believes that development and progress must proceed without straining the cultural and historic environment. Her philosophy: the Architect's role is that of guardian - his is the conscience of the built and un-built environment. This belief underlines her work at "Somaya and Kalappa", the company she founded and has headed for the last three decades. Her oeuvre, spanning corporate, industrial and institutional clients extends to public spaces, which she has rebuilt and sometimes reinvented as pavements, parks and plazas. These include the Colaba Woods, Ganeshpuri Temple and a slew of pavements in South Mumbai & the reconstruction of an entire village in Kutch. She has done the master planning and building design of multiple corporate and educational campuses. Some of these award winning campuses include the Tata Consultancy Services - Banyan Park, Mumbai, the Nalanda International School, Vadodara, the Zensar Technologies limited, Pune. Other campuses include the Goa Institute of management and the Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani.

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Deepshikha Jain

Deepshikha Jain

Architectural, Industrial and Travel Photographer

Deepshikha Jain is a Architectural, Industrial and Travel Photographer from Bombay, India. After graduating in Architecture from Bombay, she pursued a Master’s in Photography from Paris. She can easily be seen as a hybrid, having embraced one world without abandoning the other. Having a flair for Travel and Architecture/ Infrastructure she has traveled across the Indian sub continent and parts of Europe and the UK, sometimes just to see why a certain piece of Architecture/ Infrastructure was so rated and at times to be mesmerized by it.

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Mustansir Dalvi

Mustansir Dalvi, Sir J. J. College of Architecture

Professor of Architecture

Mustansir Dalvi is Professor of Architecture in Sir J. J. College of Architecture, Mumbai. He has post graduate qualifications in Architecture and Indian Aesthetics from the University of Mumbai. He has lectured, read and published several papers on architectural education and contemporary Indian architectural history. He has written for the monographs: 'Buildings that shaped Bombay: the Architecture of G. B. Mhatre', 'Quiet Conversations: the architecture of Kamu Iyer' and most recently for a volume on Mulk Raj Anand (Marg Publications). He is also published in Domus, the Journal of Italian Design, Marg, Art India, Architecture+Design, Indian Architect & Builder, Architecture: time, space & people and the Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects. He is particularly interested in the development of Bombay's architecture during its emergence as a vibrant metropolis.

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Naresh Fernandes

Naresh Fernandes

Journalist & Editor of Scroll.in

Naresh Fernandes is the editor of Scroll.in, a digital news publication. He is the author of City Adrift: A Short Biography of Bombay and Taj Mahal Foxtrot: The Story of Bombay's Jazz Age.

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