Research
Circus Training Schools in India: Current Scenario and Challenges
(with Maria Ujjainwala) published in Tekton: Volume 11, Issue 1, July 2024 [ISSN (Print): 2349-6282]
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Doshi’s Architecture: Breathing Life into the Static
published in TEKTON: A Journal of Architecture urban Design and Planning; Volume 10, Issue 2, December 2023; [ISSN (Print): 2349-6282]
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Tracing the Gothic Revival in Bombay through the Architecture of the University Buildings
published in TEKTON: A Journal of Architecture urban Design and Planning; Volume 9, Issue 2, December 2022; [ISSN (Print): 2349-6282]
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Art Deco Bombay: The Radical Re-imagination of the City through its Aesthetics
From the conference Radical City: Imagining Possibilities for the Indian City, published in Unbound: A Journal of Discourse and Creative Practices – Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Issue 3, January 2020
Indo-Saracenic Architecture in Maharashtra: a search for ‘self’ in the context of Empire
National Conference: ‘The Material Cultural Heritage of Islam in Maharashtra’; Organized by Centre for Archeology and the Centre for Extra Mural Studies, University of Mumbai, January 2018 (Scheduled for Publication in the Conference Volume)
This New Architecture: Contemporary Voices on Bombay’s Architecture before the Nation State
published in TEKTON: A Journal of Architecture urban Design and Planning Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2018; ISSN 2349-6282
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Expressions of Modernity: Semiotic Isotopy on Bombay’s Backbay Reclamation Buildings
published in TEKTON: A Journal of Architecture urban Design and Planning Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2015; ISSN 2349-6282
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Display Typography of House Names in Mumbai’s Residential Buildings: A Semiotic Intervention
(with Nanki Nath) Typography Day 2013, International Conference IIT- Guwahati, March 2013
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Splendid Isolation: A Semiotic Investigation into the Bhendi Bazaar Redevelopment Project
International Conference on Islamic Arts and Architecture organized by the Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 2011, published in the Technical Volume.
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Dismantling cosmopolitanism: transformations in the sacred heritage of the non-monumental in the Konkan
(with Smita Dalvi) published in New Architecture and Urbanism: Development of Indian Traditions, Deependra Prashad, Editor, INTBAU and the Nabha Foundation, New Delhi, 2008
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The Urban Talav - a catalyst for public participation: Strategies for conserving man-made water bodies in Navi Mumbai
(with Smita Dalvi) Paper read at the Annual Convention of the Indian Institute of Architects IIA, Bhopal, December 2005; published in the technical volume
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Architectural Education & Practice: an audit of tensions
published in the Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects, April 1999; ISSN-0019-4913
Roots and Trajectories: an exhibition on four young practices in India
published in the Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects, August 2004; ISSN-0019-4913
Architectural Design Education within the Shifting Paradigms of Technological Change
published in the Indian Journal of Technical Education of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE); Volume 22 No: 3, July-Sept 1999; ISSN-0971-3034
Pedagogical Research in Architectural Education
published in the Indian Journal of Technical Education of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE); Volume 19 No: 3, July-September 1996; ISSN-0971-3034
Evaluational Methods for Subjective Assignments: Developing a Non- Quantitative Model for Architectural Design and Basic Design
Paper read at the National Workshop on Architectural Education, Chennai, organized by the Council of Architecture, January 1995; published in the Technical Volume
Bounded in a Nutshell: The Mindset of the Architect as Academic
Paper read at the Annual Convention of the Indian Institute of Architects, Pune, December 1995; published in the Technical Volume
The Many Architectures of Mumbai
Course Offered (Online, 6 days)
Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Mumbai Research Centre, 19th -24th October 2020
Bombay's Spaces of Sociability: Exile, Migration and Contact Zones
Convener (Mustansir Dalvi and Rachel Lee, LMU Munich), International Workshop of European Research Council (ERC) Research Project METROMOD
Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai, 13-14th Dec 2019
Seminar on Architectural Theory
Convenor
Organized by Sir JJ College of Architecture, 1st-2nd August 2014
Homegrown Cities: Local Construction Practices in Urban India
Convenor, International Conference on Affordable Housing
Organized by Sir JJ College of Architecture, URBZ and Lafarge, March 2012
Navi Mumbai Defining the City’s Edge
Convenor
Workshop organized by the Navi Mumbai Centre of the Indian Institute of Architects, Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Sept 2001
Workshop for Teachers of Architecture
Convenor
Pillais College of Architecture, New Panvel; March 1999
The Architecture Student’s First Year in College
Convenor
Workshop by the Indian Association of Schools of Architecture IASA and Pillais College of Architecture, New Panvel; March 1998
Buildings as Text: Developing a Semiotic of Bombay’s Art Deco Architecture (1930-1949)
Doctoral Research (PhD)
At the Industrial Design Center (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay (IIT-B), (August, 2017)
Identifying and listing heritage buildings and sites in Panvel and Uran, as also the Raigad region of Navi Mumbai with aim to develop guidelines for conservation of the built heritage in the Konkan Region.
MMR Heritage Society (Project Leader: Smita Dalvi)
Navi Mumbai (Raigad) Heritage Project, 2001-2004 as Principal, Pillais College of Architecture Research Cell
Lesser Architecture in Bombay’ in the 1930’s & 1940’s: Aesthetic Assertion in an Age of Chronological Eclecticism
Dissertation PGD Indian Aesthetics
Dissertation for Postgraduate Diploma in Indian Aesthetics; Department of Philosophy, University of Mumbai, May 2000
An Analysis of the Relation between Human Territoriality and Architectural Design; with Special Application to the Design of Campus Environments
Dissertation M Arch
Dissertation for Degree of Master of Architecture (by Research); Sir J.J. College of Architecture, University of Mumbai, April 1989
Architectural Impact on the Townscape of the Building Activities of the Development Programme in Churu and Sikar, Rajasthan
Study for AIILSG (With Lakhia, K I)
for the All-India Institute of Local Self Government- Regional Centre of Urban and Environment Studies, Mumbai, 1987
Research Supervisor
Masters in Architecture,
Sir JJ College of Architecture, University of Mumbai, since 2010
Thesis Guide
Bachelor of Architecture,
Sir JJ College of Architecture, University of Mumbai, since 1997
20CASI
Preliminary listing of 20th Century Buildings in Mumbai
(for inclusion in Heritage Listing), 2002 for the Twentieth Century Architecture Society, India (20casi)
Documentation of 4 Canonical Buildings from Mumbai in the 1950’s
2003
for the Twentieth Century Architecture Society, India (20casi)