Pavitra Rajaram

Pavitra Rajaram Design

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Abha Narain Lambah

Abha Narain Lambah Associates

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Abha Narain Lambah is a practicing Conservation Architect and a recipient of the Architect of the Year Award 2019 Architectural Digest, Architect of the Year Award CNBC Awaaz 2017, Eisenhower Fellowship, Charles Wallace Fellowship (U.K.) and Sanskriti Award. Her firm has been included in the AD100 Architects List for over a decade and has been featured on the International Works of Wonder (The WoW List) of 20 projects by Architectural Digest USA. Over the past 25 years, Abha's architectural practice has had a pan India impact, with projects that include award winning conservation of 15th Century temples in Ladakh and Hampi, iconic palaces, forts and caravansarais in Rajasthan, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Punjab. She has worked on conservation of the Mughal garden of Shalimar Bagh Kashmir, urban and regional conservation in Kancheepuram and Shekhawati, Streetscape projects in Hyderabad, Amritsar and Mumbai and conserving colonial heritage across India. The practice has won 11 UNESCO Asia Pacific Awards for heritage conservation and is the largest architectural conservation practice in the sub-continent. Abha has been a consultant to ICCROM, Global Heritage Fund and World Monuments Fund and has served on the heritage committees of both Delhi and Mumbai. Abha Narain Lambah Associates have been consultant to both central and state governments on planning for the ancient sites of Ajanta Caves, Bodh Gaya, Amer fort as well as 20th century sites of Santiniketan, Corbusier’s Capitol Complex and Mumbai’s Art Deco & Victorian ensembles – all UNESCO World Heritage Sites. They have prepared UNESCO Nomination Dossiers for the ancient Buddhist site of Sarnath, Monuments of Mandu and Mughal Gardens of Kashmir, in addition to intangible listing for Durga Puja and Kohima, Nagaland. Abha has pioneered urban conservation projects across India and has restored many 19th Century Victorian landmarks. Some of her projects in Mumbai include urban guidelines for Khotachiwadi and Dadabhai Naoroji Road, restoration of Asiatic Library & Town Hall, David Sassoon Library, Convocation Hall, Elphinstone College, Tata Palace (Deutche Bank), Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalay, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Sir JJ School of Art, Municipal Head Office and Crawford Market. She has advised on museum design for Indian Museum Kolkata, CSMVS Museum and Mani Bhavan in Mumbai, Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum and Nehru Memorial Library & Museum in Delhi, Bharatpur Museum, Swaraj Bhavan and Anand Bhavan Allahabad, Chowmahalla Palace Hyderabad, Jaivilas Palace Gwalior and Lal Bagh Palace Museum in Indore. Abha has authored and edited a range of books including "Punjab: Land of the Five Rivers", “Architecture of the Indian Sultanates”, “Custodians of India’s Heritage: 150 years of the Archaeological Survey of India” and “Shekhawati: Land of the Merchant Princes” for MARG Publications. She has authored a range of books on Mumbai including the "The Victorian & Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai", “Kala Ghoda: Celebrating Mumbai's Art District”, "Through the Looking Glass: The Grade I Heritage of Mumbai" and co-authored “A City’s Legacy: The Indian Navy’s Heritage in Mumbai” and “Conservation After Legislation: Issues for Mumbai”. She has been an advocate for saving Mumbai's heritage and prepared the successful nomination to inscribe the Mumbai's Art Deco & Victorian ensemble as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Anupama Kundoo

Architect

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Prof. Dr. Anupama Kundoo’s research-oriented practice started in Auroville in 1990 has generated people centric architecture based on spatial and material research for low environmental impact while being socio-economically beneficial. Her body of works was exhibited as a solo show 'Taking Time' at Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in 2020. She has taught Architecture and Urban Management at various international universities including Yale University, GSAAP Columbia University and University of Queensland, Brisbane, strengthening her expertise in rapid urbanization and climate change related development issues. She is currently Professor at Potsdam School of Architecture, Germany. She received the RIBA Charles Jencks award for her contribution to architectural theory, the Auguste Perret Prize for architectural technology, the 2021 Building Sense Now global award of the German Sustainable Building Council and the Global Award for Sustainable architecture under UNESCO patronage in 2022. Kundoo’s rigorous research and experimentation in new materiality for architecture is the result of questioning basic assumptions and construction habits adopted by humanity across time. Rather than focussing on shortage, she seeks abundance through investing in human resources and human resourcefulness, such as ingenuity, time, skills, care and sense of community. The act of building produces knowledge just as the resulting knowledge produces buildings. Her studios are based in Berlin in Germany and Pondicherry in India. She is currently Head of Urban Design, Auroville.

Amit Gupta

Founder and Editor-in-chief, STIR

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A creative thinker, curator, and entrepreneur, Amit has worked for over three decades with a motivation to facilitate intersections amongst diverse creative disciplines and distant geographies while launching pioneering initiatives that propel the creative discourse, practice, and allied industries. In 2014, intending to democratise knowledge creation and dissemination, he set up a founding team to launch STIR with a manifesto to embrace inquiry, investigation, and introspection. The first product of STIR was launched in 2015 - a print publication called mondo*arc india – that has today grown into an interdisciplinary global digital magazine, STIRworld. Starting with a career in advertising, Amit soon moved on to set up India’s first architecture and design gallery that supported a portfolio of emerging designers while launching iconic global design brands in India in the late 1990s. The gallery curated shows that not only launched new talent, it addressed pertinent themes that challenged the status quo in the domestic landscape and collaborated with international institutions for transcontinental cross-pollination. Amit is geared to launch the next ventures focused on strengthening STIR’s fast-growing critically acclaimed position within the global creative ecosystem.