Ayush Gangwal Ayush Gangwal is a freelance Architect based in Aurangabad, Maharashtra and is currently working on various residential and institutional projects across the country.    He was an Associate Architect at RMA Architects and has previously worked locally in firms from Aurangabad and in Mumbai such as Case design and S + PS Architects. He has also worked internationally with firms like Palinda Kannangara Architects in Colombo and Sou Fujimoto Architects in Tokyo.    He has a keen interest in architectural research and was a part of the core research team for the State of Housing exhibition organized by the Urban Design Research Institute(UDRI) & the Architecture Foundation.   THE VIVEK EADARA SHOW   Hi ! My name is Vivek Eadara and i am a student of Architecture. My love for Art, Travel and Photography made me realise my undying passion for Architecture. I have always loved having conversation with people who are just as passionate about architecture and travel as I am, and this podcast is just that.   The idea of starting an Architecture Podcast series is an initiative to interact and create a dialogue with well-known industry professionals, emerging young Architects and aspiring architecture students to converse about one’s personal and professional experiences that may find way in helping others, areas of concern within the fraternity, some fun trivial chats and many more.

What is KVDF?  The Kurula Varkey Design Forum is one of the largest student organised architectural forums in the country. Since its inception in 2000,it  has strived to critically question the discipline of architecture and its manifestations at the given time through student projects as take-off points. The forum invites undergraduate student projects from over 100 architecture schools across South Asia, of which a few are selected as generators of the discourse. The forum further invites practitioners, academicians, and young graduates from across the globe to participate in curated discussions exploring pressing subjects and themes vital to the discipline.This year the forum brings together final year projects from various architectural schools to foster discussions on current debates with a focus on the role of architects in the evolving context of intertwined complexities of human-non human, architect-client, privileged-marginalized, iconicity-adaptability, collaborative practice-independent practitioner binaries that have inherently influenced the practice and discourse of architecture.    You can find more details about KVDF: kvdforum.in  or their instagram handle: instagram.com/kvdforum   The conveners for this year's forum are Akshar Gajjar, Heer Shah and Ujjvala Krishna.   About the conveners   Akshar Gajjar is a fresh graduate from Faculty of architecture CEPT University. He interned at Busride Design Studio in Mumbai and then went to ETH Zurich for an exchange semester. His research interests lie in imagining architecture as an adaptive threshold for human non-human relationships to flourish. His research thesis “Adapting Multispecies Studies into Architectural Thinking” is a step forward in developing a new lens and method of looking at the built environment.    Heer Shah is a fresh graduate from Cept University.She has worked with Masaki Kato in Tokyo, Japan. She feels that the lines between an architect, urban designer, interior, product designer etc is quite blurred and believes all of this lies under the realm of design. She has worked on various projects ranging from design of an amplifier to a Tamagawa Metro Station in Tokyo. Her final year project was on criticism in architecture, and challenged the tendency to iconize the architectural project - Sangath  within our disciplinary discourse by a persistent curiosity to understand it as a part of the built environment, assessing its viability and limitations through a systematic inquiry into the conditions and consequences of its design.    Ujjvala is a 23-year-old architecture graduate with a strong inclination to right all things wrong in the world, yet knows that solely a propensity to do so is not enough! She believes that architecture is something that initiates curiosity and a constant demand for logic and hopes to continue navigating through various new avenues of design and research, all the while learning through her experiences.   THE VIVEK EADARA SHOW   Hi ! My name is Vivek Eadara and i am a student of Architecture. My love for Art, Travel and Photography made me realise my undying passion for Architecture. I have always loved having conversation with people who are just as passionate about architecture and travel as I am, and this podcast is just that.   The idea of starting an Architecture Podcast series is an initiative to interact and create a dialogue with well-known industry professionals, emerging young Architects and aspiring architecture students to converse about one’s personal and professional experiences that may find way in helping others, areas of concern within the fraternity, some fun trivial chats and many more.

Chapters  0:00 Intro  2:00 Studying Masters in Politecnico di Milano  32:00 On Architectural Photography  RAHUL PALAGANI  Rahul Palagani is an architectural designer, Urbanist, and self-educated photographer. He has graduated in Architectural Design & History from Politecnico di Milano, Milan(Italy) in 2019 and he did his bachelor’s from VSAP, Hyderabad(India) in 2015.   He was the Public Relations for the National Association of students of Architecture (NASA) India, and later the Advisor. He has been part of the Indian delegation in the European Architectural and Design Assembly(EASA) and has constructed Installations in Malta, Denmark, and Romania. He Tutored and led workshops in NASA India on Bamboo Construction which focused on Public and Social Spaces in Surat and Jaipur.   Rahul has also assisted Architectural Photographer Marco Introini as a teaching assistant at Politecnico di Milano for Photography, Cinema, and Theater-related Courses.  Rahul is also a Museum enthusiast and has curated exhibitions in Italy and Romania and he is also currently working on a book about Museum Interaction. He is the Co-Founder of International Urban and Architectural Photography Practice “NARA Studio” based in Cairo, Hyderabad & Milan.   UJJWAL SANNALA  Ujjwal Sannala is an architectural photographer based in Hyderabad. He has worked for brief period as a junior architect at SEA(Hyderabad) and as an assistant photographer to Bharath Ramamrutham, an architectural photographer based in India. After working professionally in the field for an year, he is now a student at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad where he is pursuing Masters of design in photography. His other interests are Quizzing, Architectural competitions and food.   THE VIVEK EADARA SHOW   Hi ! My name is Vivek Eadara and i am a student of Architecture. My love for Art, Travel and Photography made me realise my undying passion for Architecture. I have always loved having conversation with people who are just as passionate about architecture and travel as I am, and this podcast is just that.   The idea of starting an Architecture Podcast series is an initiative to interact and create a dialogue with well-known industry professionals, emerging young Architects and aspiring architecture students to converse about one’s personal and professional experiences that may find way in helping others, areas of concern within the fraternity, some fun trivial chats and many more. For updates follow my instagram Handle: https://www.instagram.com/thevivekeadarashow/

DECCAN AMALGAM    Deccan Amalgam is a Hyderabad based, architecture studio that was founded in 2016 by Sneha Parthasarathy and Zoha Razvi.   The studio’s design and research initiatives are aimed towards improving the team’s interaction with the city , its topography, landscape, history, infrastructure, politics and people. Deccan Amalgam, as a studio, believes that every space in the city, no matter its scale, affects the city and the way we inhabit it.   They are interested in understanding the relationship between any given space or situation and its larger, natural and human made context. This penchant, for deciphering the complex web of inter dependencies that influence the built environment and not just the end product, is the focus of our process. Through their projects they are constantly trying to understand the ever changing world and how as a design studio we can make an informed intervention.   SNEHA PARTHASARATHY  is Principal Architect and Co-Founder of deccan amalgam. She has a Masters degree in Advanced Studies in Architecture from ETSAB, UPC, Barcelona. Prior to founding the studio in 2016 and after completing her undergraduate studies in Architecture, she spent about 10 years working and studying in cities around the globe. She has worked with studios at the forefront of critical design thinking and of varied specialisations which has provided her the experience of designing projects of different scales and materiality. She is passionate about documenting her travel and work experiences and maintains a blog of her architectural musings called ‘Architecture and the City’   snehaparthasarathy.blogspot.com   ZOHA RAZVI  is Principal Architect and Co-Founder of deccan amalgam. He has a Masters degree in Architectural Management and Design from Instituto de Empresa (IE), Madrid. Post his undergraduate studies in Architecture, he has been working on architecture and planning projects in Doha since 2006. Having spent most of his childhood and working years in the middle east he has witnessed the dramatic growth and urbanisation of new cities, ground up. This has made him acutely aware of the importance of architecture in the building of humane cities. His other big interest is the ergonomics and mechanical workings of automobiles and spends his leisure time designing them. He is also a trained bike racer. THE VIVEK EADARA SHOW   Hi ! My name is Vivek Eadara and i am a student of Architecture. My love for Art, Travel and Photography made me realise my undying passion for Architecture. I have always loved having conversation with people who are just as passionate about architecture and travel as I am, and this podcast is just that.   The idea of starting an Architecture Podcast series is an initiative to interact and create a dialogue with well-known industry professionals, emerging young Architects and aspiring architecture students to converse about one’s personal and professional experiences that may find way in helping others, areas of concern within the fraternity, some fun trivial chats and many more. For updates follow my instagram Handle: https://www.instagram.com/thevivekeadarashow/

Chapters  0:00 Introduction  9:59 Presentation on recent and On-going projects  29:12 In Conversation with ROOH Studio   ROOH STUDIO  ROOH Studio is an Indo-European studio for contextual, strategic, responsible and thoughtful architecture. Present in India, UK & Finland. The studio is currently working on several projects in India and Europe, taking a contextual approach of combining local materials with contemporary construction methods.  ROOH Studio finds that their cultural and geographic diversity as a team gives them a critical and analytical edge as part of their design ) process when working across different cultural settings. The studio has delivered projects from pavilions demonstrating the potential of urban farming to office buildings responding to tropical climates using passive cooling design strategies.  ROOH is passionate about all aspects of the design industry and are working towards expanding their work into an upscaled design and product market, currently working on bespoke solutions with two independent companies in Finland, Innogreen and Vivaret.  They have also been responsible for holding various 1:1 workshops across Europe and India focused on design, research and built solutions for socio-economic-cultural issues and themes.  Visit their website: https://roohstudio.com/  THE VIVEK EADARA SHOW   Hi ! My name is Vivek Eadara and i am a student of Architecture. My love for Art, Travel and Photography made me realise my undying passion for Architecture. I have always loved having conversation with people who are just as passionate about architecture and travel as I am, and this podcast is just that.   The idea of starting an Architecture Podcast series is an initiative to interact and create a dialogue with well-known industry professionals, emerging young Architects and aspiring architecture students to converse about one’s personal and professional experiences that may find way in helping others, areas of concern within the fraternity, some fun trivial chats and many more.   For updates follow my https://www.instagram.com/thevivekeadarashow/

TAHIR NORONHA  Tahir is a young architect who works as the convener of the Charles Correa Foundation in Goa, where he leads a team of Fellows engaging in urban design projects in the city as well as research and publications on architecture as a whole.   A graduate of the Goa College of Architecture, most of his experience has been in design to conserve heritage — both natural and built. Tahir’s areas of interest are social work, planning and public policy, and in his free time he is an active member of several citizen-action groups in the city of Panjim (where he was born) and in the village of Neura (where he now lives).  In this episode Tahir shares his experience working with Charles Correa Foundation and gives us several insights into the various work CCF have been doing up over the years.   THE VIVEK EADARA SHOW   Hi ! My name is Vivek Eadara and i am a student of Architecture. My love for Art, Travel and Photography made me realise my undying passion for Architecture. I have always loved having conversation with people who are just as passionate about architecture and travel as I am, and this podcast is just that.   The idea of starting an Architecture Podcast series is an initiative to interact and create a dialogue with well-known industry professionals, emerging young Architects and aspiring architecture students to converse about one’s personal and professional experiences that may find way in helping others, areas of concern within the fraternity, some fun trivial chats and many more.  For updates follow my  Instagram Handle:https://www.instagram.com/thevivekeadarashow/

Chapters  0:00 Intro  1:40 Project Presentation  30:39 Q/A session  1:01:09 On Neha's illustrations and Three - Flaneurs   NEHA HARISH  An architect at Collective Project and graduate of the RV College of Architecture, Neha is an avid architectural travel enthusiast, Carnatic singer, and basketball player. Her passion for culture, history, and material draws her closer to exploring contextually and collectively driven architectural endeavors through travel and art.   Also a Co-flaneur at Three Flaneurs, an architectural design and travel collective, she is  constantly looking to expand her design sensibilities across multiple scales. Neha is also a skilled illustrator with pen and ink as her medium. Instagram Handle: https://www.instagram.com/_neharish_/  REQUIEM FOR TOLERANCE: ARCHITECTURE & DISJUNCTION - REMAPPING DISPLACEMENT ON THE MARGINS OF GENOCIDE  This dissertation explores the role of placelessness in architecture. The memory of a human is largely and closely related to the place he once habituated. But what happens to these relations in the event of forced migrations due to natural climatic occurrences or socio-political conflicts?   For a person constantly under the state of refuge in an unknown environment, his or her solace lies in memories of home. Therefore the project explores the architectural implications of the feeling of placelessness and loss of identity by highlighting the connections between architecture, place, and living memory.   This project is a recipient of  1. National Gold winner AYDA - Asia's young Designers Award – 2020  2. Regional Finalist COA - National Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Thesis – 2021  3. Honourable Mention -  Mango Thesis Awards – 2020  4. Jury Commendation - Ethos! India Transparence 15.0 powered by Saint Gobain – 2020   THE VIVEK EADARA SHOW   Hi ! My name is Vivek Eadara and i am a student of Architecture. My love for Art, Travel and Photography made me realise my undying passion for Architecture. I have always loved having conversation with people who are just as passionate about architecture and travel as I am, and this podcast is just that.   The idea of starting an Architecture Podcast series is an initiative to interact and create a dialogue with well-known industry professionals, emerging young Architects and aspiring architecture students to converse about one’s personal and professional experiences that may find way in helping others, areas of concern within the fraternity, some fun trivial chats and many more.  For updates follow my  Instagram Handle: https://www.instagram.com/thevivekeadarashow/

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe6M6nqWaZY&t=0s&ab_channel=TheVivekEadaraShowTheVivekEadaraShow DWIJ HIRPARA  Dwij Hirpara is a final year student in the bachelor’s program at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad and is particularly interested in using design as a catalyst to explore alternative possibilities of building future habitats.    Dwij pursued his internship with the Pritzker winning Spanish firm RCR Arquitectes followed by working on several notable public projects in Ahmedabad and Vadodara which are still under construction.    He is very passionate about architecture design and in particular, he has an edge for graphical representations. His project titled - Time, Public and Architecture is the recipient of the CEPT Gujaral foundation excellence award 2021 where his project was shortlisted as one of the top five. He is an articulate and expressive thinker which makes his works and conversations insightful.  TIME, PUBLIC AND ARCHITECTURE.  TUTOR: KAIWAN MEHTA    Project Description The political will of bringing a neighbourhood stimulus was to attenuate notional boundaries which are always porous and allow metathesis of activities to adapt to an expanding culture. Our built environment is a physical and tectonic object that has an expanding life and evolving history relating to ecologies that are influential on the way we understand the architectural elements and the way meanings and ideas of any material changes. Introduction to the idea of a neighbourhood began with the realization of numerous activities which are indissociable activities comprising an impalpable form of a fabric that we know as our neighbourhoods. By looking at the neighbourhood as a reflection of a combination of events, activities, and thought objects, the idea of this project is to insert a 'pacemaker' in the ageing heart of the town.    The site is an abandoned factory premise which once boasted of a landmark building in a much unconscious industrial heritage of the vicinity. The design intervention functions like a machine that runs the city while its site edges are composed of municipal ward offices overlaying with other public activities. The conceptual framework and its integration allow substantive movement for people to reminisce and revive the past to serve a present purpose while its form and tectonics give birth to an exploration of changing times and networks. Thus, by living through the process of history and heritage, the user is immediately enticed by a rich sense of the existent past and an awareness of the present.    The architectural form provokes a powerful discourse in regards to the social responsibility of public functions to enrich shared urban spaces. Understanding the scale and the volumetric language that interacts uniquely to both - the inside and the outside, the facades become an archaeological scenery providing physical and metaphorical intimacy with times past, concerning profused ideas associated with Time, Public and Architecture.

Chapters  0:00​ Introduction  1:11​ campus life at CEPT  5:45​ Semester 6 working drawings/models studio with Prof Sankalapa  13:46​ Dwij Hirpara Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio  21:03​ Applying to RCR Arquitectes and traveling to Spain  34:44​ Experience working at Pritzker winning Architecture firm RCR Arquitectes    DWIJ HIRPARA  Dwij Hirpara is a final year student in the bachelor’s program at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad and is particularly interested in using design as a catalyst to explore alternative possibilities of building future habitats.   Dwij pursued his internship with the Pritzker winning Spanish firm RCR Arquitectes followed by working on several notable public projects in Ahmedabad and Vadodara which are still under construction.   He is very passionate about architecture design and in particular, he has an edge for graphical representations. His project titled - Time, Public and Architecture is the recipient of the CEPT Gujaral foundation excellence award 2021 where his project was shortlisted as one of the top five. He is an articulate and expressive thinker which makes his works and conversations insightful.  Instagram Handle: https://www.instagram.com/dwijhirpara/​  THE VIVEK EADARA SHOW   Hi ! My name is Vivek Eadara and i am a student of Architecture. My love for Art, Travel and Photography made me realise my undying passion for Architecture. I have always loved having conversation with people who are just as passionate about architecture and travel as I am, and this podcast is just that.   The idea of starting an Architecture Podcast series is an initiative to interact and create a dialogue with well-known industry professionals, emerging young Architects and aspiring architecture students to converse about one’s personal and professional experiences that may find way in helping others, areas of concern within the fraternity, some fun trivial chats and many more.  For updates follow my  Instagram Handle: https://www.instagram.com/thevivekeadarashow/

BIJOY RAMACHANDRAN  Bijoy Ramachandran is a partner at Hundredhands Design, a Bangalore based architectural practice. He currently serves as the Design Chair at BMS College of Architecture, Bangalore.  Bijoy has an undergraduate degree from Bangalore University and a masters degree (in Architecture & Urbanism) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He has also attended the Glenn Murcutt Masterclass. Apart from architecture he has also produced two films on the celebrated Indian architect Sri B.V. Doshi. Both films have been nationally and internationally screened at colleges and film festivals.   SUNITHA KONDUR  Sunitha Kondur is a partner of Hundredhands Design, a Multi Disciplinary Design Practice Based in Bangalore. She has a Bachelors degree from BMS College of Engineering and a Master’s Degree  from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston.  She went on to work as a project manager with the Mass State College Building Authority and was Senior Project Manager for the prestigious Houses at Sagaponac Project in New York before returning to India in 2003.   She also founded SOURCE, a materials, product and furniture sourcing company and deeply believes in the revival and integration of Indian art and craft in the work the studio produces. Sunitha along with a college friend recently launched AVAZA, a premium Lifestyle Concierge for the Elderly, which elevates everyday independence and lifestyle for senior citizens in Bangalore.   Sunitha is a Founder Member of WIREnet World (Women in Real Estate Network) a professional networking group formed for women professionals from the real estate and construction industry and was also a founder member of Smart Vote, a campaign supported by citizens  to increase participation in the electoral process. Website: http://hundredhands.com/work.html​  THE VIVEK EADARA SHOW   Hi ! My name is Vivek Eadara and i am a student of Architecture. My love for Art, Travel and Photography made me realise my undying passion for Architecture. I have always loved having conversation with people who are just as passionate about architecture and travel as I am, and this podcast is just that.   The idea of starting an Architecture Podcast series is an initiative to interact and create a dialogue with well-known industry professionals, emerging young Architects and aspiring architecture students to converse about one’s personal and professional experiences that may find way in helping others, areas of concern within the fraternity, some fun trivial chats and many more.  For updates follow my  Instagram Handle: https://www.instagram.com/thevivekeadarashow/