His practice has won many Architectural Design Competitions and has also won National Awards for completed projects. His professional practice, spanning over 30 years, has dealt with institutional and residential projects across India. Subsequently, he has been an Adjunct Faculty at Srishti School of Design and also holds the position of Academic Chair at the Goa College of Architecture. He retired as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at CEPT University in 2013. He has taught at the University of Nairobi, the Institute of Environmental Design at Vallabh Vidyanagar, and was a faculty member at CEPT University for over twenty-five years. Neelkanth Chhaya has been an academic and practicing architect for nearly forty years. Anupama Kundoo talked about the social and environmental duties of an Architect. Amit Gupta elaborated on Design Research in Practice and Pedagogy. Shirish Beri talked about the importance of architecture in shaping human behaviour. Krishna Rao Jaisim and Ar Narendra Dengle iterated the relevance and applicability of the underlying concepts of the Gandhian philosophy. She spoke on lowering the Carbon Footprint: Humanistic Architecture for Post-COVID-19 World. Yasmeen Lari, Pakistan's first female architect. Rafiq Azam of SHATOTTO Architecture of Green Living on Phenomenal Practice and Thought-provoking Explorations on the field of Architecture and recent Urban Interventions. He spoke about Pritzker winning Laureates from the countries of India, Brazil and Japan. The third lecture was by a Pritzker Jury member, André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, also Brazilian Ambassador to India. The second lecture by Amit Pasricha celebrates the lesser-known built heritage of India and his Journey of the 'India- Lost and Found' Campaign. On the other side of the globe, Architect Ferguson, fought for the rights of a neighbourhood to remain ‘mixed’, against the monoculture promoted by developers. The inaugural lecture for the SNS series was delivered by Architect George Ferguson, Past President RIBA (2003/5) and first elected Mayor of Bristol UK (2012-16). Many of our speakers are experts from varied fields- a mayor, a grassroots social worker who works towards community empowerment, an engineer working to resolve water-crisis, sustainability experts, social scientists, travellers, industrial entrepreneurs, and many others. We seek to dishevel the older notions of compartmentalisation of knowledge and introduce learners across the country to collaborative and interdisciplinary studies. Sense N Sensibility is about integration and the big picture. These experts would demonstrate, through their choices, experiments and lessons, multiple vantage points for developing and exploring design. Sense N Sensibility (SNS) is a lecture series by ACEDGE, to allow access to expert viewpoints, from across the globe.
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