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List Of Indian Architects
The following is a list of notable architects. 17th &18th century architects 19th century * Henry Irwin * Samuel Swinton Jacob * Frederick William Stevens * Charles Wyatt * Edwin Lutyens * Herbert Baker 20th and 21st centuries * Laurie Baker * I. M. Kadri * Claude Batley * Christopher Charles Benninger * Eulie Chowdhury * Charles Correa * Hafeez Contractor * B. V. Doshi * Nari Gandhi * Satish Gujral * Krishnarao Jaisim * Shimul Javeri Kadri * Achyut Kanvinde * Anupama Kundoo * Anil Laul * Pravina Mehta * Rahul Mehrotra * Piloo Mody * Prem Nath * Eugene Pandala * Bimal Patel * Sangeet Sharma * Shashi Prabhu * Sheila Sri Prakash * Raj Rewal * Kamal Sagar * G.Shankar * Joseph Allen Stein * V. Ganapati Sthapati * Chitra Vishwanath * Brinda Somaya * Amit Khanna * Bruno Souza * Gerard da Cunha See also * Architecture of India * List of architects * architectural practices {{clear * Indian Architects An architect is a person who plans, designs and overs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that have human occupancy or use as their principal purpose. Etymologically, the term architect derives from the Latin ''architectus'', which derives from the Greek (''arkhi-'', chief + ''tekton'', builder), i.e., chief builder. The professional requirements for architects vary from place to place. An architect's decisions affect public safety, and thus the architect must undergo specialized training consisting of advanced education and a ''practicum'' (or internship) for practical experience to earn a Occupational licensing, license to practice architecture. Practical, technical, and academic requirements for becoming an architect vary by jurisdiction, though the formal study of architecture in academic institutions has played a pivotal role in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achyut Kanvinde
Achyut Purushottam Kanvinde (9 February 1916 – 28 December 2002) was an Indian architect who worked in functionalist approaches with elements of Brutalist architecture. He received the Padma Shri in 1974. Early life and education He was born on 9 February 1916 in Achra, in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, in a large family. His mother died when he was two and his father was an arts teacher in Mumbai. Kanvinde, influenced by his father, a portrait and landscape painter, took up art and graduated in architecture from Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai in 1942. He was then sent by the Government of India to study at Harvard where he worked under Walter Gropius and was influenced by his thinking and teaching. The European masters of the Bauhaus – Albert Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer, and the Swiss-American architectural historian Siegfried Giedion also had a great impact. Some of his famous batchmates were Paul Rudolph, I. M. Pei and John Perkins. Career When he ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamal Sagar
Kamal Sagar (born 16 July 1969) is an Indian architect, designer, real estate developer, restaurateur, and music enthusiast. Based in Bangalore, India, he is the founder and chairman of Total Environment Building Systems, and founder and chairman, Total Environment Hospitality (Windmills Craftworks). Early life Kamal graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 1992, with a degree in Architecture. After a short stint with Omni Architects at Lexington, Kentucky, in the US, he returned to India and designed the Poonawalla Stud Farms at Hadapsar and Theur, Pune, and also built them out in a span of just 8 months, in time for the Asian Racing Conference by Asian Racing Federation on 27 January 1995. At the farms, he extensively used exposed brick masonry, sourced from the state of Kerala, evolving a special technique with the help of steel spacers to bring out the character of every individual brick – in line with his core design philosophy of natural exteriors for all his buildings, to help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raj Rewal
Raj Rewal (born 24 November 1934 in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India) is a leading Indian architect. Education Rewal lived in Delhi and Shimla from 1934–1951. He attended Harcourt Butler higher secondary school. Between 1951-1954 he attended the Delhi School of Architecture in New Delhi. After completing a degree in architecture in New Delhi, he moved to London in 1955 where he lived until 1961. He attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture for one year and the Brixton School of Building, London from 1956-60. GD Goenka University also honour architect Raj Rewal with an honorary doctorate at a special convocation organised by University in India Habitat Centre. Career Raj Rewal worked at Michel Ecochard's office in Paris before starting his practice in New Delhi in 1962. Between 1963-72, he taught at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. He opened a second office at Tehran, Iran in 1974. Among his better known projects are the ''Hall of Nations'' (Hall 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Sri Prakash
Sheila Sri Prakash (born 6 July 1955) is an architect and urban designer of Indian origin. She is the founder of Shilpa Architects and is the first woman in India to have started and operated her own architectural practice. Biography Early life Sheila Sri Prakash was born in Bhopal, India on 6 July 1955 to Lt. Col. G. K. S. Pathy, an officer in the Indian Army, and S. Thangamma. Child prodigy artist and artistic career As a child, she trained in classical Indian dance, music and the arts. She started learning Bharatanatyam when she was four years old and gave her first on-stage Arangetram performance in 1961, when Padma Bhushan Dhanvanthi Rama Rau called her a child prodigy. Sheila demonstrated a talent as a Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi dancer, and also played the Veenai musical instrument. Over a period of nearly two decades as a performing artist, she gave performances as a dancer of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi. Her family moved to Chennai to give her greater opportun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shashi Prabhu
Shashi Prabhu (born 1944) is an Indian Architect whose company, Shashi Prabhu & Associates, has designed many Sports Complexes, Hospitals, Club Houses and Infrastructure projects throughout India. Early life He was born in Mumbai in 1944 and graduated in Architecture from The Bandra School of Arts in 1966. After completing his schooling at the Balmohan Vidya Mandir, he joined the Poddar College of Commerce where he spent most of his time playing cricket. His fascination for the game eventually led him to design India's first modern stadium, the Wankhede Stadium, in Churchgate, Mumbai. Projects His designs include: * Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai (which has hosted numerous famous cricket matches) and also hosted the 2011 Cricket World Cup Final. *VCA Stadium in Nagpur (the largest cricket stadium in India in terms of field area) * Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Delhi (which was a venue for the Asian Games in 1992 and the Commonwealth Games in 2010) * The Sardar Vallabhai Patel I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sangeet Sharma
Sangeet Sharma (born 1962) is an Indian architect and writer from Chandigarh, India. He has authored six books on architecture, including ''Architecture, Life, and Me'' (2008), ''The Corb's Capitol'' (2009) and ''Castles in the Air'' (2017). Sharma is known for his contribution to architecture and literature. He has designed architectural work at the NIT Jalandhar, University of Jammu, Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research and the PSG Institute of Technology and Applied Research, which was awarded the GRIHA Exemplary Performance Award by GRIHA Council. Career Architecture He is a practicing architect as a partner in SD Sharma & Associates, a firm founded by his father, Shiv Dutt Sharma. In September 2009, he was awarded the Outstanding Concrete Structure for 2009 by the Indian Concrete Institute for his project KMG IT Towers at Mohali, in Punjab. He was given a commendation award fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bimal Patel (architect)
Bimal Hasmukh Patel (born ) is an architect from Gujarat, India, with over 35 years of professional, research and teaching experience in architecture, urban design and urban planning. He is President of CEPT University in Ahmedabad and leads ''HCP Design Planning and Management Private Limited'', an architecture, planning and project management firm. He also founded Environmental Planning Collaborative, a not-for-profit, planning research and advocacy organization. Patel’s practice has focused on transforming urban design and planning practice to make them more effective in improving Indian cities. His research interests are in Land Use Planning, Real Estate Markets, Building Regulations, Land Management and Urban Planning History. He received the Padma Shri Award for his contributions in the fields of Architecture and Planning in 2019. Early life and education Bimal Patel lives and practices architecture and city planning in Ahmedabad, India. He was educated at St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Pandala
Eugene Pandala is an Indian architect, known for building with values of environmental sustainability. Education and career Pandala completed his Bachelor's in Architecture from College of Engineering Trivandrum. Pandala studied for a Masters in Urban Design at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. He had his Fellowship in Heritage Conservation at University of York and at Fort Brockhurst English Heritage Training Centre in the U.K. He was the founding head of the second school of Architecture in Kerala (1985) located at Kollam where he spent time educating and researching on traditional building technologies of India. Pandala while studying at Delhi School of Planning and Architecture met the legendary architect Hassan Fathy, and was inspired to build with mud. As a nature lover, and cultural heritage conservation activist, he designs buildings with natural materials, landscapes with biodiversity conservation, and native vegetation, preferring interesting organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Architect Prem Nath
Prem Nath (June 6, 1941), Ar. Prem Nath is an Iconic Indian architect with a wide spectrum of work, also The Most Admired Architect in India. Awarded Architect of Baburao Mhatre Gold Medal 2019 during the virtual event of NATCON 2020 by the Indian Institution of Architects (IIA) with a citation describing him as a "Seminal Architect" and a "Trail Blazer" in the field of architecture. Ar. Prem Nath has many "FIRSTS", to his credit which includes First ever Revolving Restaurant, First Health Spa, First Multiplex Mall in the Country, First Fast track I.T Building, First Gold graded & HUDCO Award winner Township, First Platinum Rated School & many more to the list. He is the founder of Prem Nath and Associates, an architectural firm based in Mumbai, founded in 1967.Additionally, Mr. Nath is a Chartered Engineer, a Certified Valuer and Real Estate Appraiser In a career spanning 50 long years, he has received many awards such as “Most Promising Brand” in Architecture and Real Est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piloo Mody
Piloo Mody (14 November 1926 – 29 January 1983) was an Indian architect and politician and one of the founding members of the Swatantra Party. Elected to the 4th and 5th Lok Sabhas, he served in the Rajya Sabha from 1978 until his death. Personal life A member of the Parsi community Piloo Mody was one of the sons of Sir Homi Mody. He was educated at The Doon School, Dehradun. After School he attended Sir J. J. College of Architecture and the University of California, Berkeley, from where he graduated with a master's degree in architecture. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who went on to become Prime Minister of Pakistan in the 1970s, was his college roommate and the two were close friends. He was married to an American, Lavina Colgan Mody, who was a fellow architect student at Berkeley on 3 January 1953. He had 2 brothers, Kali Mody, a pioneer of credit card operations in India and Russi Mody, a former chairman of the Tata Iron and Steel company Limited. Work as architect After his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rahul Mehrotra
Rahul Mehrotra is Founder Principal of architecture firm RMA Architects (founded in 1990 as Rahul Mehrotra Associates) of Mumbai + Boston, and is Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has been one of the activists behind the declaration of urban precincts as conservation areas in Mumbai and one of the founder members of the Kala Ghoda area rejuvenation movement, the restoration of the Oval Maidan, and the formulation of several citizens' associations in the historic Fort District in Mumbai. He was also executive director of the Urban Design Research Institute (1994-2004), where he is now a trustee. The UDRI is also actively involved in researching and influencing policy for the historic district, and the city more generally. He is also a founding board member of the Indian Institute for Human Settlement (IIHS). He graduated from CEPT Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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