PUBLICATIONS
Essay Published by Institute of Urban Designers India (IUDI) for Natcon 2025
Urban Nomads | Including Transient Communities in Cities:
A Case of Pastoral Communities
In this piece, I weave a personal narrative, backed with research based in ground reality, to shed light on the challenges pastoral nomadic communities face in urban landscapes. Inspired by watching a pastoral family set up camp near my apartment in Pune, I explore how cities that are built for permanence often overlook those who live on the move. The essay examines issues like restricted mobility due to land policies, climate change disruptions, and the lack of legal land rights, while exploring possibilities in urban design and policy solutions to foster inclusion, dignity, and equity for these communities.
Read the piece here.
Architecture | Environment : Awareness piece published by WO Architect
Building Change with Plastics
In light of the United Nations' emphasis on the Plastic Pollution Crisis this year, it is crucial to re-evaluate and transform the Building Industry's relationship with plastic. This article explores how the industry can become an environmental champion by adopting responsible production and consumption practices and fostering material and technological innovations to move towards a sustainable and plastic-free future.
Read the piece here.
Article on Inclusive Living for Persons with Disabilities published on My Liveable City
(Co-written with Sivagami Periannan)
Opinion piece
published by Architecture LIVE
Pragati Maidan- The Alternate Dimensions
(co-written with Sivagami Periannan)
The essay explores alternate dimensions to a site of collective memory- the Pragati Maidan complex, New Delhi, that has been through a series of contestations in the past few years. The piece explores a highly relevant and pressing issue of the future of Modern heritage in India.
Read the piece here.
Essay published in the Top 4,
as a part of CEPT Professional Program's
Writing (Alongside) Architecture Course.
Memory and Metamorphosis: Heterotopias of Time | Temporal transformations of Ice factories in Bombay and Sharjah
The essay delves into the multiple lives led by 2 intriguing, industrial buildings- Ice factories in Bombay and Sharjah respectively. One on the eastern end of the Arabian, the other on the west, speaking to one another, implicitly narrating their stories.
In the piece, I have attempted to use a braiding technique of combining fictional and non-fictional writing styles. The fictional bits are in italics where I imagine the past stories of the buildings whilst moving within these heterotopias of time (word coined by Michel Foucault for a building living temporal lives) in the present. Read the piece here.
Environmental Journalism piece published on Mongabay, India
Disaster resilience in the built environment
In the wake of the exacerbating impacts of cyclones and natural disasters, the article attempts to highlight the urgent need for building resilience in the built environment through sustainable strategies and frangible architecture principles that cyclone-vulnerable communities could use to ensure risk mitigation and reduced impact on human and non-human lives.
Read the piece here.
Sensory Architecture Essay Awards:
Building Living Bridges through Sensory Space: Crafting timeless connections through Architecture
2023: Awarded the First Prize in the International Essay Awards on Sensory Architecture 2023 organized by Archiol.
The essay attempts to decode the built environment as a persuasive medium that has the power to influence and elevate human experience. Through compelling cases, it metaphorises Architecture as that living bridge that connects our subjective experiences to objective reality in meaningful ways.
Project Writing for Alkove Design
Published by Architect and Interiors India
Play along the Symphony of the Earth and the Sky in this Pune home
2023: The architects decided to use this as a design cue and syphoned the blues of the sky into the living room, making it flow as a royal indigo hue onto a bounding wall. Umber brown wainscoting accentuates the fluid tonality of the wall- defining and grounding it. This accent wall was the starting point that led to the other design decisions. A splash of earthy tones- rust orange and burnt browns complement the indigo and together they conjure up a symphony of the earth and the sky.
Read the entire piece here.
Inclusion By Design |
Creating Environments that Celebrate Diversity
2023: Publication in collab with Xeno Co-lab.
The article delves into the meaning of true Inclusion in our everyday city. It calls out feeble attempts in token integration and urges designers to consider nuanced layers of both physical and the often ignored invisible challenges that hinder spatial experiences.
Through this piece, we hope to bring a call to action amongst designers, policymakers, educators, inventors, and professionals across domains on sensitive approaches towards achieving dignity for All in our built environment.
2023 published by Architecture Live.
This article decodes the built and unbuilt relationships that go into crafting a school, that thereby influence a pedagogy deeply ingrained in Nature. A lesser known treasure designed by
Ar. Balkrishna Doshi.
Editor of the 10th-year publication: "Confluence"
for @sustainabilityinitiatives of VK Group, Pune an organization working actively in the realm of Urban Sustainability.
2022: The publication – “Confluence” brings forth the initiatives of SI through the underlying thread of their linkages with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), contextualizing them to local Indian conditions.
2021 published by Studio Matter
In a dialogue with Nashik-based architects, CAUSE – an initiative,
author Rama Raghavan poses questions and explores themes on practice, conservation, publicness, ambition of a programme, perceptions of constraints and challenges through the lens of their project –
Shanti-Krishna Museum of Money & History.
2018 published by Ethos, India
The article presents reflections around Sustainability as takeaways from the ACEDGE course, ‘Building without Concrete’ mentored by Ar. Sanjay Prakash, Shift Studio, Delhi. It highlights the importance of comprehensive analysis and critical decision-making when considering materials, construction processes, and contextual relevance in the pursuit of building sensitively.
