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E D U C A T I O N :

1987



Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD),
Degree with Distinction

1985 School of Architecture, Ahmedabad, India
Diploma in Architecture (Dipl.Arch.),
Gold Medal for Thesis




W O R K E X P E R I E N C E :

2000 to date

1996 to date
Principal, The Taj Mahal Conservation Collaborative, a group practice focused on evolving strategies
for the conservation of the Taj Mahal and its surroundings.
Principal, The Bombay Collaborative a Conservation Architecture And Urban
Design Practice.
1990 to date In Private Practice Rahul Mehrotra Associates (RMA Architects)
1988 1990 Charles Correa, Architects & Planners, Bombay
1987 1988 Stull and Lee, Inc., Architects, Urban Designers and Planners, Boston

C O M M I T T E E S :

2007 to date Member, Advisory Board, D J Academy of Design, Coimbatore
2007 to date Member, Advisory Board, STANDPUNKTE, Basel
2005 to date Member, Board of Studies, CEPT, Ahmedabad
2004 to date Trustee, Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai
2003 to 2005 Member, National Advisory Panel, Jaipur Foundation, Jaipur
2002 to 2004 Member, State Government Task Force for Master Plan of Mumbais Eastern Waterfront
2002 to 2003 Member, three-person Committee appointed by the Mumbai High Court to advice on policy for
hoardings and signage in Mumbai
2002 to 2006 Member, Advisory Board Global Heritage Fund, Los Angeles
2002 to 2006 Trustee, Friends of J J School of Arts, Mumbai
2002 to 2006 Member, Advisory Board, Hampi Foundation
2002 to date Founder Member, Core Committee, Tourist District Association, Mumbai
2001 to date Member, Project Implementation Committee, for the Restoration of the Taj Mahal,
Archeological Survey of India and National Culture Fund, New Delhi
2001 to date Trustee, PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research),Mumbai and New York
2001 to 2002 Member, Board of Studies Under Graduate Program in Architecture, School of Architecture, CEPT,
Ahmedabad
2001 to 2003 Member, Advisory Committee to the Mumbai High Court on the relocation of Hawkers and
improvements on Chowpatty Beach
2000 to 2002

Member, Advisory Board, Center for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture(CAMEA),
University of Adelaide, Australia
Member, Advisory Committee to the Municipal Commissioner for Monitoring Street Furniture and the
Public Spaces of Mumbai
Founder Member, Core Committee, Kala Ghoda (Art District) Association, Mumbai
Founder Member, Core Committee, Horniman Circle (Banking District) Association, Mumbai
1999 to 2001

1999 to date
1999 to date
1998 to 2000 Member, Selection Committee (India), Eisenhower Fellowship
1996 to 2006 Member Governing Board, MMRDA (Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority) Society for
Promoting Heritage Conservation
1996 to 2000 Member, Maharashtra Government Tourism Development Zone Committee
Member, Advisory Board, MARG Magazine 1996 to date
1995 to 2001 Member, Mumbai First, Land use and Housing Committee
1992 to 1999 Member, Advisory Committee to the Municipal Commissioner for the Preservation of Historic Buildings
in Mumbai
1990 to date Member, Technical Committee for the J N Tata Endowment for Higher Studies in Architecture
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P R O F E S S I O N A L A P P O I N T M E N T S :

2009


2008 to date
2008 2011
2007 2010
2007
2007

2007

2006 to date
2005 2006

2005 2006

Jury Member, 2009 AIA New York Design Awards.
Jury Member, EDRA 2009 Great Places Awards.
Jury Member, International Idea Competition Building for Bouwkunde at Delft.
Founding Member, Board of Directors, Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Mumbai.
Steering Committee Member, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Geneva, Switzerland.
Jury Member, Prince Claus Award.
Jury Member, The Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award, Mumbai.
Member Think Tank chaired by Prof Peter Rowe for curriculum framework for architecture and planning
school for the Aga Khan University at Karachi.
Member Academic Committee, Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction: International Symposia for the
future of the built environment. Holcim Foundation and Tonji University, April 2007, Shanghai.
Trustee, Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai.
Commissaire Urbanisme et Architecture, Bombay Maximum City, an exhibition on Contemporary Indian Art
held in Lille, France.
Jury Member, James Sterling Memorial Prize, for the Lecture on the City organized by the CCA, Montreal
and LSE, London.
2005 Resource Person for Unitair / Unesco Conference workshop on site management of World Heritage Sites,
Mumbai, August 2005.
Resource Person for World Monuments Fund workshop on Conservation of Dalhousie Square Calcutta, July
2005.
2004 2005 Jury Member, Berkley Prize, University of Berkley, California.
2003 2007 Faculty Participant, Detroit Charrette, organized by the University of Michigan, Detroit, Jan 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006 and 2007.
2002 2004 Member, Master Jury, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Geneva, Switzerland.
2001 2003 Co-team Leader, India Team for Sustainable City Design Competition, organized by the World Gas
Conference, Tokyo, Japan.
2001 Architectural Visual Interpreter, for Basel Mission Picture Archive, Basel, Switzerland.
2001 Technical Reviewer, Asian Region, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Geneva, Switzerland.
2000 2001 Conservation Consultant to Arch Foundation, Wien, Austria.
1994 2004 Executive Director, Urban Design Research Institute (UDRI), Mumbai (See Appendix VI for details).
1991 1995 Founder Member, Bombay Conservation Group a professional organization initiating conservation efforts in
the city.

B O O K S :

2008 Bombay Deco, co- authored with Sharada Dwivedi and published by Eminence Designs.
2006 Banganga and Malabar Hill, co authored with Sharada Dwivedi, published by Eminence Designs, April
2006 ( new and revised edition)
A City Icon Victoria Terminus Bombay 1887( now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 1996) co- authored with
Sharada Dwivedi and published by Eminence Designs.
2005 Fort Walks 10 Walks in Bombays Historic City Centre co-authored with Sharada Dwivedi and published
by Eminence Designs, (Marathi Edition), Mumbai.
Michigan Debates on Urbanism vol 1: Everyday Urbanism, editor for volume, published by The University
of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architect + Urban Planning.
2004 Conservation After Legislation Issues and Ideas for Bombay Co-edited with Abha Narain Lambah,
published by the Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai.
2003 The Bombay High Court The Story of the Building 1878-2003 co-authored with Sharada Dwivedi,
published by Eminence Design, Mumbai.
2000 World Architecture A Critical Mosaic 1900-2000 Volume VIII, South Asia, Editor for book documenting
canonical works of architecture of the century in South Asia, General editor Kenneth Frampton, published
by the Architectural Society of China, Beijing and the Union of International Architects, Beijing.
Anchoring A City Line The Western Railway Headquarters 1899-1999 Co-authored with Sharada
Dwivedi and published by Eminence Designs, Mumbai.
1999 Fort Walks 10 walks in Bombays Historic City Center Co-authored with Sharada Dwivedi and Published
by Eminence Designs, Mumbai, 1999, (Reprinted in 2001).
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1997 Bombay To Mumbai Changing Perspectives Co-edited with Pauline Rohatgi and Pheroza Godrej,
published by Marg Magazine Mumbai, 1997 (Reprinted in 2001).
Public Places, Bombay Co-edited with Guenter Nest and published by the Goethe Institute.
1996 Banganga Sacred Tank A book on the history of the Banganga Temple complex and Malabar Hill,
Mumbai Co-author with Sharada Dwivedi and published by Eminence Designs, Mumbai.
1995 Bombay The Cities Within A book on the urban history of Bombay, Co-author with Sharada Dwivedi and
published by India Book House and Eminence Designs, 1995, (Reprinted in 1997, 2001).
The Fort Precinct In Bombay Conserving an Image Center. A two volume publication on the Fort area
co-edited and compiled with Gunter Nest and Sandhya Savant and published by the Goethe Institute.

C A T A L O G U E S / B R O C H U R E S :

2008

2006
Mumbai Reader 2, co compiled and edit with Pankaj Joshi, published by Urban Design Research
Institute, Mumbai.
Mumbai Reader, co compiled and edit with Pankaj Joshi and Prasad Shetty, published by Urban Design
Research Institute, Mumbai.
Mapping Mumbai- University of Michigan Mumbai Studios Spring and Fall 2005, coordinated / edited,
published by Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai.
2005


2004


2002
A Study of the Eastern Waterfront of Mumbai A Situation Analysis carried out between August 2000
December 2001 with Pankaj Joshi and Anirudh Paul, published by the Urban Design Research Institute,
Mumbai.
Creating A Tourist District -The Gateway Of India Precinct: A proposal for upgrading and managing the
area prepared and published by Urban Design Research Institute, sponsored by Indian Hotels Company
Limited.
The Victoria Memorial School for the Blind Co-authored with Sharada Dwivedi, published by Eminence
Design, Mumbai.
The Jehangir Art Gallery Co-authored with Sharada Dwivedi, published by Eminence Design, Mumbai.
2000 Ballard Estate A Corporate District A Proposal for Upgrading and Managing the Area, with Bombay
First and for the Ballard Estate Welfare Association, published by Urban Design Research Institute.
Buildings of the Kala Ghoda Art District published by Urban Design Research Institute, Marg Magazine
and Max Mueller Bhavan Bombay.
1999 Restoring A Banking District for the Horniman Circle Association, published by Urban Design
Research Institute.


G U E S T E D I T E D :

1991 Guest Editor of issue on Bombay City, for Architecture + Design, Nov-Dec. 1991

1990 Guest Editor of volume on Urban Design in India, Architecture + Design, Sept-Oct 1990


P U B L I C A T I O N S & L E C T U R E S : See Appendixfor detail list


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W O R K S P U B L I S H E D :


2008














Rural Campus for TISS, published in Arquitectura Viva, Numero 120, Madrid, 2008.
Rural Campus for TISS, House on an Orchard, Software Campus for HP in catalogue titled BSI Swiss
Architectural Award 2008 published by Mendrisio Academy Press, Switzerland.
Childrens Creative Centre Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj vastu Sangrahalaya in newsletter titled The
Museum Volume 1. Issue 4, Oct-Dec 2008.
Orchard House, Campus for Magic Bus Tata Institute for Social Sciences, in magazine titled Elle Dcor
Oct-Nov 2008.
Rural Campus for TISS and Magic Bus City Campus, Phaidon Atlas of 21 century World Architecture.
2008.
Rural Campus for TISS, Orchard House, Shanti A Weekend House, House for a Film Maker, LMW-
Corporate Offices, in book titled Contemporary Indian Architecture selected works, Roli Books, New
Delhi, Jagan Shah, editor, 2008.
Mariwala House House for a Film Maker in Newsletter titled Building India, published by ARCAM,
Amsterdam Centre for Architecture, on the occasion of the exhibition Building India, 14 Nov 2008-Jan
2009.

2007 Air and Light in the City Kumar House Coimbatore in India Contemporary, Henry Wilson, Thames and
Hudson, London 2007.
HP Campus in Bangalore, in Multi National City, Reinhold Martin and Kadambari Baxi, Actar, Barcelona,
2007.
Corner Plot House, House for a Film Maker, Rural Campus for TISS, House on an Orchard, Restoration of
Chowmahalla Palace, Laxmi Machine Works (LMW), Published in Architectural Design Made in India,
Guest-edited by Kazi K Ashraf, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. England, November/December 2007.
Goa 2100 Sustainable Urban Design Project, article published in The Big Project Construction:
connecting the Dots Sept 2007.
Magic Bus City Campus published in DOMUS- Contemporary Architecture Interior Design Art, #907,
October 2007, Milano, Italia.
Rural Campus for TISS, Orchard House, published in book titled Architecture + Urbanism, 445, Feature:
India- Glocal Architecture, Publisher: A+U Publishing Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, 2007.
Orchard House, House for a Film Maker, Shanti-A Weekend House, Rural Campus for TISS, LMW-
Corporate Offices, Bandhej A Lifestyle Store at Bombay, Bangalore, Ahmedabad Extension to the
Prince of Wales Museum, Corner Plot House, Tea Plantation House, published in book titled Young
Asian Architects, Germany.

2006 Rahul Mehrotra, Mumbai, in essay tilted Facts on the Ground urbanism from Mid-Road to Ditch, by
Michelle Provoost and Wouter Vanstiphoust, Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 2006/Winter 2007,
Cambridge.
Goas Urbanism, World Changing, Edited by Alex Steffen, Abraham, New York, 2006.
Corner Plot House, Chennai, published in book titled DIBAIO EDITORE, Architectural Review, Italy, 2006
Tea Plantation House, House in an Orchard, published in book titled Home by Om Books, Germany
Rural Campus for TISS, Orchard House, Shanti A Weekend House, House for a Film Maker, LMW-
Corporate Offices, in book titled Modern Traditions New Architecture in India, by Birkhauser Publishers
for Architecture Basel/Berlin/Boston.
Orchard House, Bandhej A Lifestyle Store, Restoration of Chowmahalla Palace, Corner Plot House,
House for a Film Maker, Tea Plantation House, House in the Cantonment, LMW-Corporate Offices,
Extension to the Prince of Wales Museum, Sakshi Art Gallery, Shanti A Weekend House, Swati
Snacks, Rural Campus for TISS Abitare 463,Titled India towards the future, July-August 2006, Italy.
Corner Plot House, in Europaconcorsi a web magazine http://www.europaconcorsi.com.
Corner Plot House, Rural Campus for TISS, Orchard House, Shanti A Weekend House, House for a
Film Maker, LMW-Corporate Offices, Extension to the Prince of Wales Museum.
Restoration of Chowmahalla Palace, Bandhej A Lifestyle Store at Bombay, Bangalore, Ahmedabad,
Tea Plantation House, Time +Architecture, Shanghai, Nov2006.
Bodhi Art Gallery published in Sunday Hindustan Times, Mumbai, 21 May 2006.


2005

Shanti-A Weekend House, House for a Film Maker, House in an Orchard, L M W Corporate Offices,
and Chowmahalla Palace Complex published in book titled New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture,
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Pesaro publishers, Sydney, 2005.
Rural Campus for TISS, and Extension to the Prince of Wales Museum published in Casa Life Design
Magazine, Vol 60, Japan, Mar 2005
The Chowmahalla Palace, Sunday Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad, Feb 6, 2004.
Goa 2100 Sustainable Urban Design Project has been featured in two new books and a web journal
on Sustainability that were released in early 2005:
Herbert Girardet, a UN Global 500 award recipient and leading author on Sustainable Cities features Goa
2100 in a section on Building Ecopolis that concludes his latest book from John Wiley Cities People
Planet: Livable Cities for a Sustainable World.
The Natural Advantage of Nations: Business Opportunities, Innovation and Governance in the 21st
Century (Earthscan, 2005) carries an essay on Goa 2100 by Alan Atkinson
Goa 2100 featured as a lead article on the web-blog www.worldchanging.com, April 2005

2004 Shanti A weekend House, House for a Film Maker published in The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary
World Architecture, U.K., 2004
House for a Film Maker near Bombay published in The Reserve of Form in Architecture, Art and
Popular Culture, at the Kunstierhaus Wien, Austria, Curators Klaus Stattmann and Angelika Fitz, August
to October 2004

2003 Goa 2100 Sustainable Urban Design Project, published in Proposals for the International Competition
of Sustainable Urban Systems Design Report of the International Gas Union Special Project, Edited by
Shigeru Itoh, 22nd World Gas Conference Tokyo 2003
LMW Corporate Offices, Shanti A Weekend House, House for a Film Maker and the Extension for the
Prince of Wales Museum, published in Catalogue for exhibition titled Mirrored Metropolis New
Architecture and Planning in India, held at the Ades Gallery, Berlin, September 2003
L M W Corporate Offices, Pluralism & Dualities in Architecture + Vol. 2003, published from, Dubai,
U.A.E.
House at Khim, Alibaug, in Asian Architecture, edited by William Lim
House at Khim, Alibaug in Architectural Design, Off the Radar, Guest-edited by Brian Carter and Annette
LeCuyer, Vol 73 No.1 Jan/Feb 2003, London.

2002 L M W Corporate Offices, and Prince of Wales Museum, in SPACE, Singapore, August-September
2002
L M W Corporate Offices, and Prince of Wales Museum, in Urban Creation, Catalogue for the Shanghai
Biennale, 22 November 2002 to 20 January 2003

2001 Swati Snacks, in Indian Architect & Builder, October/November 2001
Swati Snacks, in Society Interiors, Annual 2001
Tropical Hindustan da Mimari Cozumler, in Mimarlik Kutturu Dergisi, Ankara, Turkey, March April 2001

2000 L M W Corporate Offices in Coimbatore, in The Architectural Review, U.K December 2000
A Passage to India The Works of Rahul Mehrotra Associates, in Monument, Australia, October-
November 2000
Working in Bombay The City as a Generator of Practice, in The New Asian House, Singapore, 2000
Working in Bombay The City as a Generator of Practice, published in Asian Architects (a series on
contemporary Asian Architects), Singapore, 2000
Architect of the month The Works of Rahul Mehrotra Associates, in Archiworld, Seoul, Korea, 2000
Laxmi Machine Works, Boutique for Naeem Khan and Sakshi Art Gallery in Arbitare, Milano, July-August
2000
The Works of Rahul Mehrotra Associates, in Indian Architect & Builder, April 2000
Autohangar Showroom & Workshop for Honda, in Architecture + Design, Jan-Feb 2000.
The Sakshi Art Gallery, in Inside Outside, January 2000

1999 Working in Bombay in Prince Claus Fund Journal #3, Netherlands, December 1999.
Rahul Mehrotra Architectural and Urban Conservation Projects in Indian Architects & Builder, July 1999
Soluciones arquitectonicas on la India Tropical, Rahul Mehrotra, India in Laprensa, Republic of Panama,
28 February 1999.

1998 Steeling a March Boutique for Azeem Khan, in Society Interiors, December 1998.
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Vishvabalak Kendra, Navi Mumbai in Architecture + Design, July-August 1998.
Sakshi Art Gallery in Indian Architect and Builder, July 1998
Escape from the City: Shanti A House at Alibaug Bombay in Singapore Architect, no 1991/98,
Singapore, May 1998.

1997 The Alliance at Rahul Mehrotra Associates in Inside Outside, October 1997.
STP Factory, Goa in Architecture + Design, July-August 1997.

1996 Mariwala House in issue titled The House, Architecture and Urbanism (A+U), Volume No.314, Japan,
November 1996.
The View from the Edge house on a cliff near Mahableshwar article in Saturday Times of India, by Kiran
Manral, 27 July 1996.
Rahul Mehrotra Associates in issue titled Architecture on the Horizon, Architectural Design Profile
No. 122, Academy Editions, London, 1996.
The House on the Western Ghats The Mariwala House, in Asian House: Contemporary Houses of
Tropical Asia by Robert Powell, Select Books, Singapore, 1996.

1995

Balancing Dualities Rahul Mehrotra, Indian Architect and Builder, June 1995
Designing in the Urban Context Designer of the year, Interior Annual, 1994

1994 Past, Present, Future Tense Designer Profile, Inside Outside, Feb 1994
Rethinking Old Spaces four projects by Rahul Mehrotra Associates, Inside Outside, Feb 1994
Coherent Konkan Railway Prototype Station and Housing Projects, Indian Architect and Builder, Feb,
1994.

1991 Jehangir Art Gallery & Bandhej Boutique, Architecture & Design, special Issue on Interiors, October 1991.

I N T E R V I E W S :

April 2009 Interview with Rashi Khilnani for CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) on Mumbai. Montreal, Canada.
Mumbai, Rahul Mehrotra et le cosmopolitisme published in the Magazine Bonviva, edited by Urs Schottli
East Asia Correspondent Zurich, Switzerland.

Sept 2007 Imparare da Bombay (learning from Bombay) in IL GIORNALE DELL ARCHITETTURA, N.54,
September 2007, interview by Toma Berlanda and Michele Bonino.

Feb 2006 Interview by Urs Schoettli Far East Correspondent of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung

Dec 2004 Re-defining Architecture interview by Geeta Doctor, the Hindu Magazine (National Edition), Sunday,
December 12, 2004

Oct 2004 Multiplicity of Understanding interview by Linda Fitzgerald for PORTICO, Journal of the Taubman College
of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, U.S.A 2004

Oct 2003 Architecture Will Not Be the Spectacle of the City Interview on Planning for Bombay, by Christoph
Laimer, for Derive Oct-Dec 2003 issue, Wien

July 2002 On Architecture Television Interview by Anil Dharkar for program titled Art + Culture, Doordarshan 2,
Mumbai

Dec 2000 An Attitude Towards Conservation Interview by William Glover for Dimensions V15 Journal of the
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, U.S.A.

Feb 2000 Encounters, Bombay Times, Interviewed by Pritish Nandy, 1 February 2000
May 1998 Bombay Times, Interviewed by Malvika Sanghvi, Star T.V, Mumbai

Aug 1997 Urban Evolution, special report on Urban Regeneration, Interviewed by Preeti Goel Sanghi, World
Architecture, Issue No.58, London, July-Aug 97

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Oct 1996 Rahul Mehrotra, Architect, Conservationist, Interviewed by Kishore Singh, Design Digest, New Delhi

May 1996 Reach for the Stars Times FM, Interviewed by Erica DSouza, Mumbai

Jun 1994 Montages, Doordarshan 2, Television, Interviewed by Anil Dharkar, Mumbai

Feb 1994 Good Morning Bombay Show, Radio-Midday, Interviewed by Shanaz Dinshaw, Mumbai.


E X H I B I T I O N S:

2008

2004
Working in Mumbai an exhibition on the works of RMA architects, Wolk Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, USA.

Shaping Cities an exhibition of, Urban Design Faculty Work, Project Exhibited, Goa 2100. Exhibition at the
College of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Moving Corners Dadar Station Bombay in City Corners an exhibition on Cities in Barcelona, Spain,
Designed with the Urban Design Research Institute.
The Reserve of Form In Architecture, Art and Popular Culture, exhibited House for a film Maker, at the
Kunstierhaus Wien, Austria and Curators Klaus Stattmann and Angelika Fitz.

2003 Mirrored Metropolis an exhibition on New Architecture and Urban Planning in India, Aedes Gallery, Berlin.
Goa 2100 an exhibition on transforming Panjim City in Goa towards a sustainable future. Exhibition as part
of Indian Team at the World Gas Conference, Tokyo, Japan.

2002 The Works of Rahul Mehrotra at the Shanghai Biennale Exhibition on Contemporary Art and Architecture
organized by the Contemporary Art Museum Shanghai, China.

2000 Autour du Monde: Jeune Architcture Indien, an exhibition on Young Indian Architects organized by the
Insitut Francais d Architecture of Paris, France, 11 April, 2000.
Memories in Asbestos an installation on interpretations of the Kalaghoda Art District in Bombay
Installation in collaboration with Mumbai artist Atul Dodiya, 1-14 February 2000, at Chemould Art Gallery,
Mumbai.
The Buildings of the Kala Ghoda Art District- an exhibition on the historic buildings of the district together
with some urban conservation strategies, in collaboration with the Urban Design Research Institute, 1-14
February 2000, at the Stuttgart Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan Bombay.

1998 Beginnings projects of twelve young architects, June 1998 at the Municipality Contemporary Art Gallery,
Ankara, Turkey.
Rahul Mehrotra Associates projects, March 1998 at the Claude Batley Gallery, J. J School of
Architecture, Mumbai.

1997 4x4 Four projects by four Architects, March 1997 at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for
Architecture and Environmental Studies, Mumbai.

1996 Architecture on the Horizon, an exhibition on emerging architects from around the World, Aug Sept 1996
at the RIBA Architectural Centre, London.

F I L M S:


2002 One City Two Worlds, conceptualized and presented film on Mumbai, directed by Zafar Hai and produced
by Marg Publications, 2002.

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T E A C H I N G :


2010 to date

2009 to 2010

2007 2009

2008 to date
Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge MA.

Professor of Architecture at MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Associate Professor of Architecture at MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Director, SMArchS program at MIT.

2006

2002 2007
Visiting Associate Professor, Fall Semester, Harvard Design School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. (refer Appendix IV for details)

2000 Visiting Professor, Fall Semester, College of Architecture + Urban Planning University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, MI.

1998 Visiting Faculty, (for two week Workshop), at The National Singapore University, August 1998.

1996 to 1998 Advisor, undergraduate dissertations at the Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT)
School of Architecture, Ahmedabad.

1987 Tutor, Career Discovery Program (Summer School) at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard
University, July and August 1987.


A W A R D S :

2010

2005
Award of Merit from UNESCO for the Restoration of the Chowmhalla Palace Hyderabad.

INTACH (Hyderabad Chapter) Award for Conservation of the Chowmahalla Palace in Hyderabad

2003 Special Jury Award as member of the Indian Team in International Gas Union Competition for the Design
of a Sustainable City with a 100 year time frame, Tokyo, Japan.

2001 J K Cements Architect of the year Award, Commendation Award in Public Building Category for LMW
Corporate Office at Coimbatore

2000 Kenneth Brown Asia Pacific Award 2001, Honorary Mention for LMW corporate Headquarters and Shanti
a weekend house near Alibaug.

G R A N T S :

2004 Technische Universitat Berlin, Research Project, The own and the foreign in Architecture: Case Studies
on the making of cultural identity in the contemporary architecture of developing countries), funded by the
Volkswagen-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany.

1996 British Council Grant in Aid, to visit the U K to study Conservation Practice.

1995 Goethe Institut Travel Fellowship, to study Architecture, Urban Design and Conservation in Germany.

1986 The Aga Khan Travel Grant, to study the walled city of Hyderabad for the Aga Khan Foundation at Harvard
and MIT.

1985 1987 The J.N. Tata Endowment for Higher Education Abroad, Scholarship to study at Harvard University.

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A F F I L I A T I O N S :

1990 to date Council of Architecture, India (CA)
Indian Institute of Architects (IIA)

S Y M P O S I A :

Participated on invitation and made presentations at the following major international Symposia:

April 2009

Aug2007

April 2007

Sept 2006

Mar 2005
Emerging Exchanges: New Architectures of India, Architectural League/ The New School, New York, NY.

Urban Design in South Asia, Asia Link program, organized by Luven University, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Urban Trans Formations, Holcim Forum, Tongji University, China.

Sites and Subjects Narrating Heritage, Scope Conference, Wien, Austria.

Ruins of Modernity, University of Michigan, Institute for the Humanities, Center for European Studies, Center
for Russian and European Studies and the German Academic Exchange Service, Ann Arbor, MI.

Jul 2004 New Alliances for Past, Present and Future, World Monuments Fund Conference on Heritage Conservation,
Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Mar 2004 Sustainable Urban Design and Planning, organized by + 30 Network an organization of Cities working
towards Sustainable Planning, Vancouver, Canada.

Mar 2004 Enclaves Conference on post- Industrial Waterfronts organized by the Yale University, School of
Architecture, New Haven, USA.

Oct 2003 Cities and Markets organized by the International Federation of Housing and Planning, Vienna.

Sep 2003 India and its Future organized by South Asia Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies, John
Hopkins University, Washington, DC.

May 2003 Sustainable Urban Design, World Gas Congress, Tokyo, Japan.

Apr 2003 The Art Deco World, organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK.

Apr 2002 Capital & Karma: Conversations between India and Europe, organized by the Art and Theory Network DeEgo,
Vienna, Austria.

Oct 2001 Shared Heritage: The Common Ground, organized by the Australia-India Council, University of Canberra,
Australia

Sep 2001 Man.Architecture.Nature.Global-Local-Glocal, organized by Singapore Institute of Architects and Arcasia
Forum 11, Singapore

Feb 2001 The Conservation of Eighteen and Early Nineteenth Century Architecture in India, Organized by the Georgian
Group, London, U.K

Jan 2001 International Seminar on Traditional and Vernacular Architecture in India organized by the Madras Craft
Foundation, Hampi, South India

Jun 2000 Architecture 2000 Crossing Thresholds, keynote speaker, The Royal Australian Institute of Architects,
Sydney, Australia.

Mar 2000 Old Cities, New Cultures an Indo-British Seminar, organized by the British Council, New Delhi, India.

Nov 1999 The Future of Asian Cities organized by the Architektur Zentrum Wien, Austria.
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Jun 1999 World Architecture a Critical Mosaic 1900-2000, organized by the Union of International Architects, Beijing,
China.

May 1999 The Preservation of Historic Cities and Sacred Places, organized by the World Bank, Washington DC, U.S.A.

Nov 1998 Tropical Architecture Encounter, organized by The Institute of Tropical Architecture, San Jose, Costa Rica.

Jul 1998 Ethics and Aesthetics, International Convention of the Indian Institute of Interior Designers, Baroda, India.

Jun 1998 Anytime Conference, organized by the Anyone Corporation, New York and Architectural Association 1927
(Turkey), Ankara, Turkey.

Mar 1998 UIA-IIA International Meet on Architecture and Heritage, keynote address, organized by the Indian Institute of
Architects, Aurangabad, India.

Mar 1998 Asia Pacific Cities Forum Regional Interchange organized by Asia Pacific Cities Forum (APCF) and the City
of Cebu, Philippines.

Feb 1998 City Space and Globalization Symposium Organized by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Dec 1997 Neve Entwicklungen in Architecktur and Stadteban in Indien, organized by the Duetsch-Indische
Gesellschafte.V.Berlin, Germany.

Nov 1997 An Architecture of Independence: Modernism and the Next Generation at the Asia Society, New York, NY








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A P P E N D I X

E s s a y s / A r t i c l e s :

2008



2007













2006

Between Sanctioned and Shadow Order learning from the kinetic city in book titled Urban Trans Formation,
edited by Ilka and Andreas Ruby, Ruby Press, Berlin, 2008.
Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities in book titled Urban Imaginaries, ed Andreas Huyssen, Duke University
Press, 2008.
Simultaneous Modernities essay in book titled The Ruins of Modernity, ed Julia Hell and Andrea Schonel, Duke
University Press.
Asia: Alter Readings in Asian Alterity: with special reference to Architecture and Urbanism through the lens of
Cultural Studies, Singapore, December 2007.
Conservation and Change: Questions for Conservation Education in Urban India, Volume 33, Number 3, 2007
published in Built Environment Guest Editors: Jeff Cody and Kecia Fong, published by Alexandrine Press.
Frothing Urbanism, with Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty published in Arch Plus, 185 Zeitschrift fur Architekur and
stadtebau, Indischer Inselurbanism, Berlin, November 2007.
Remaking Mumbai in Journal Urban India: Understanding the Maximum City, London School of Economics,
London.
Emergent Landscapes- contemporary architecture in India 1990-2006.Atlas: Global Architecture circa 2000,
Foundation BBVA, Madrid, Spain.
Bangalore Dysfunctional Boom Town in Harvard Design Magazine, spring/summer 2007.
Post- Planning in Mumbai, Mills for Sale the way ahead, Marg Publications, Mumbai, December 2006.
Introductory Essay for Catalogue titled Bombay Maximum City, The introduction was for an exhibition on
Contemporary Indian Art in Lille, France.
Talking Cities published in Architecture and Culture Korea, August 2006.

2005 Architecture and Contemporary Indian Identity, in Proceedings of Seminar titled Architecture and Identity,
organized by the Technische Universitat Berlin and the Volkswagen Foundation, Berlin,(expected publication
2009).
Introductory Essay (with Pankaj Joshi and Anirudh Paul) for book on Bombays Eastern Waterfront, published by
UDRI, July 2005.
2004 Introduction, to publication on the Michigan Debates on Urbanism, Vol 1, Everyday Urbanism, University of
Michigan, U.S., 2004.
Planning for Conservation Looking at Bombays Historic Fort Area, Future Anterior, journal of Historic
Preservation, History, theory and Criticism, GSAPP, Columbia University, Volume1 number 2, Fall 2004.
Bombay City Corners essay for catalogue enter for Exhibition titled City Corners Barcelona, June 2005.
2003 Learning from Mumbai, published in special issue on Conservation, Seminar, October 2003.
Bombay: Art Decos Gateway to India in Connecting, published by British Council, Mumbai, August 2003.
Planning for Conservation in a book titled Traditional and Vernacular Architecture Proceedings of the Seminar
6-12, January, 2001, Tamil Nadu & Karnataka organized by the Madras Craft Foundation.
2002 Harmonizing Multiple Aspirations in Mumbai Reflections on Urban Design in a Journal titled The City, published
by Bombay First, Vol 1 No.4 (December 2002 January 2003), Mumbai.
Planning for Conservation in a book titled A Case for National Policy for Heritage Conservation & Management,
published by INTACH supported by the Archaeological Survey of India, August 2002.
The Tale of Two Cities in Humanscape Magazine, August 2002.
Bazaar City: A Metaphor for South Asian Urbanism in Catalogue titled Kapital & Karma, Edited by Angelika Fitz,
29 March 9 June 2002, Kunsthalle, Wien.
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2001 Bazaars in Victorian Arcades: Conserving Bombays Colonial Heritage, in Historic Cities and Sacred Sites
Cultural roots for Urban Futures, The World Bank, edited by, Ismail Serageldin, Ephim Shluger, Joan Martin-Brown,
2001 U.S.A.
Making Indian Cities in The Hindu Folio, 10 August 2001, Chennai.
Tropical Hindustan da Mimari Cozumler, in Mimarlik Kutturu Dergisi, Ankara, Turkey.
Architectural Responses In Tropical India in Tropical Architecture; Critical Regionalism in a Globalizing World, ed.
by Alexander Tzonis, Liane Lefaiver and Bruno Stagno.

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Making Indian Cities : Urban Design in the New Millennium Marg Magazine, Mumbai, December 2000.
Working in Bombay The City as a Generator of Practice (III), in Monuments, edited by Paul McGillick, October-
November 2000.
Working in Bombay The City as a Generator of Practice (II) ARCHIWORLD, July 2000, Seoul, Korea.
Architectural Practice in Contemporary India Mimarlik Kultur Dergisi Journal XXI of the Tepe Architectural
Culture Centre, February 2000, Turkey.

1999 Working In Bombay: The City as Generator of Practice (I) Anytime, Edited by Cynthia Davidson, Anyone
Corporation, New York, New York, MIT Press, USA, 1999.
Bazaars In Victorian Arcade (III) Conserving Bombay Historic Core, in City Space and Globalization, Editor
Hemlata Dandekar, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1999.
The Architecture of Pluralism A Century of Building in South Asia, essay in volume on South Asian of series title
World Architecture: A Critical Mosaic, 1900-2000, China, December 1999.
Of Images Receding In a Rear View Mirror Golconda and Hyderabad of Thomas Luettge and Hans Winterberg
essay in Catalogue accompanying photographic exhibition, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai and INTACH (Hyderabad
Chapter).
The first to fall on Marine Drive the Demolition of Natraj Hotel, co-authored with Sharada Dwivedi in Sunday
Times of India, August 9, 1999, Mumbai.
Heritage Blues Town Hall, in Sunday Times of India, August 15, 1999, Mumbai.

1998 Einort, Zwei Welten, in Stadt Bauwelt, no 140, Berlin, Dec 1998.
Urban Design, in booklet titled Issues and Ideas for Mumbai, Marg Publications, Mumbai.

1997 Evolution, Involution and the Citys Future; A Perspective on Bombays Urban Form, in volume titled Bombay to
Mumbai Changing Perspectives, Marg Publications, Mumbai 1997.
From New Bombay to Navi Mumbai the Twenty Five Years, Architecture + Design, March-April 1997.
Epitomes of a New Vision Navi Mumbai, Sunday Economic Times, 9 March 1997.
Art District for Mumbai, co-authored with Sharada Dwivedi, Sunday Times of India, 30 March 1997.

1996 Energies within the Cityscape, Humanscape, Aug 1996.

1994 Poetics of FSI, Architecture + Design, Jan-Feb 1994.

1993 Bazaars in Victorian Arcades (II) The Fort Area, Bombay, Indian Architect and Builder, December 1993.
A Heritage Street S. Bharucha Marg, co-authored with Sharada Dwivedi, Business Standard, 17 July 1993,
Calcutta.
A City is made The Politics of Planning for Bombay, Indian Architecture & Builder, April May 1993.
Reading the Face of a City Der Architekt Journal of the German Architects Association, February 1993,
Berlin.
Bombay a look at historic precincts Fortnightly column (November 1992 to May 1993) in Midday publication co-
authored with Sharada Dwivedi. Column was translated in Gujarati & Hindi and published weekly in the
Samakaleen publications.

1992 The Architecture of Rajasthan, Section in Gallimard Guide book on Rajasthan, Co-authored with Nondita Correa-
Mehrotra, Editions Didier Miller, Singapore.
Bombays Open Spaces, The Bombay Explorer, Bombay Local History Societys Journal. vol. no. 17, Dec. 1992.
The Poetics of FSI, Comment column in the Sunday Times of India (National edition), November 29, 1992.
Bazaars in Victorian Arcades (I) Transformations in Bombays Historic Centre, Places Journal of
Environmental Design, vol.8, no.1, summer 1992, New York.
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Urban Design in South Bombay, Journal of the Indian Institute Architects, vol.57 issue 04, Sept 1992.
Eggs on the Face of Bombay an essay on Private Enterprise and the Public Spaces of Mumbai, The
Independent, July 18, 1992.

1991 A Factitious City history of reclamation and urban design in Bombay, Taj Magazine, April June 1991.
Reprinted as special supplement in Business and Political Observer, 30 Sept., 1991.
30 Footsteps into Bombays past a walk around the Town Hall precinct. A walking tour brochure, Co-authored
with Foy Nissen for the Asiatic Society.
Bombay City One Space Two Worlds Architecture + Design, Nov-Dec 1991 issue.

1990 Making Legible City Form a Case for Urban Design. Architecture + Design, Sept-Oct 1990.

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L e c t u r e s :

June 2009 Recent Works of RMA Architects, presented at the Architects Forum, Hyderabad.
May 2009

April 2009

March 2009
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April 2008
Feb 2008

Jan 2007
July 2007
Dec 2006
Nov 2006
Sept 2006
Recent Works of RMA presented at the BSAs Conversations on Architecture series hosted by Brian Healy AIA,
May 13, 2009, Boston.
Working in Mumbai presented at Architectural League/ The New School, New York.
Mumbai Kinetic City, delivered at the Arthur M Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge.
Architecture and Cultural Significance (V) presented at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Making Mumbai Global questions and Issues, presented at conference on Mumbai at MIT, Cambridge.
Urban Design in India, Presented at the Centre for Real Estate at MIT, Cambridge.
Architecture and Cultural Significance (V) presented at Columbia University, New York.
Architecture and Cultural Significance (V) presented at the University of Miami.
Architecture and Cultural Significance (V) presented at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Bombay Art Decos Gateway to India, Presented at the Art deco Weekend at the Wolfsonian Museum, Miami
Beach.
Issues for Urban Design in South Asia, Asia Link Conference in Colombo.
RMA recent work, Presented at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
Kinetic City Bombay Presented at conference titled PAUSE at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.
Bazaars in Victorian Arcades, Sites and Subjects Narrating Heritage, Scope Conference, Wien, Austria.
Architecture and Cultural Significance (V) presented at MIT, Cambridge, 13 Sept 2006
August 2006 Nature and the Future of Cities: Reflections on Mumbai, Bangalore, and New Orleans presented at the third
PUKAR [Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research] Annual Lecture.
July 2006 RMA recent works. Presented at Geoffrey Bawa Memorial Lecture, Colombo, Sri Lanka , 23 July 2006.
June 2006

April 2006
The Taj Mahal a presentation and discussion about the Taj Mahal with Jumpa Lahari, World Monument Fund,
New York.
Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities, presentation for discussion at the Davies Center, Princeton University.
Talking Cities presentation on Mumbai as part of the spring lecture series at Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, 18 April
2006.
March 2006

August 2005
Architecture and Identity presentation at workshop on Identity organized by the Max Mueller Bhavan Bombay.
Conservation in Bombay presented at workshop on World Heritage Management, organized by the United
Nations Institute for training and research, UNESCO and Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai.
Bazaars in Victorian Arcades Conserving Mumbais Historic Fort District presented at Unitair/ UNESCO/ UDRI
workshop of the Management of Historic Sites, Mumbai.
Architecture and Cultural Significance (V), Presented at the Asian Design Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Architecture and Cultural Significance (V), Presented at the Indus School of Art and Architecture, Karachi,
Pakistan.
July 2005 Urban Conservation in Bombay lessons for Dalhousie Square, Calcutta, Presented at Workshop organized by
World Monument Fund, New York at the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, to discuss Conservation strategies for
Dalhousie Square, Kolkata.
Crafting Architecture, Presented at a conference titled Craft in Architecture, organized by the Crafts Council of
India and Indian Institute of Architects, Bangalore
April 2005 Bazaars In Victorian Arcades Conservation in Bombays Historic Fort Area, Presented at the Getty Institute in
Los Angeles as part of their Public Lecture Series titled Conservation Matters.
Mar 2005 Simultaneous Modernity Negotiations and Resistances in Urban India, Presented at a conference titled The
Ruins of Modernity organized by University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, Center for European Studies,
Center for Russian and East European Studies and the German Academic Exchange Service, Ann Arbor.
Jan 2005 Conserving the Chowmahalla Palace, Presentation made at the opening ceremony of the Chowmahalla Palace
Complex to the Public, Hyderabad.
Dec 2004 Historic Memory panel discussion with Charles Correa and Peter Rowe on, at seminar organized to celebrate the
Aga Khan Awards, Agra.
Architecture and Cultural Significance the recent works of Rahul Mehrotra Associates, presented at the Prakriti
Foundation, Chennai.
Oct 2004 Architecture and Contemporary Indian Identity, presented at seminar titled Architecture and Identity, organized by
the Technische Universitat Berlin and the Volkswagen Foundation, Berlin.
Aug 2004 Advocacy and Conservation cases from Bombay, presented at workshop to train Municipal engineers in
Heritage Conservation. Organized by the Mumbai Metropolitan Redevelopment Authorities Heritage Society,
Mumbai.
Jul 2004 Planning for Conservation Looking at Bombays Historic Fort Area, presented at the World Monuments Fund
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Conference on Heritage Conservation, New Alliances for Past, Present and Future, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Apr 2004 Working in Bombay The City as a Generator of Practice, presented at the Cranbrook Institute of Art and
Architecture to graduate Students of Architecture, Cranbrook.
Mar 2004 Recent Works of Rahul Mehrotra Associates, presented at the School of Architecture, University of Wisconsin at
Milwaukee, as part of their public lecture series.
On the threshold of Possibilities Enclaves in the De-Industrialized landscapes of Bombay, presented at
conference titled ENCLAVE organized by Yale University School of Architecture, New Haven.
Goa 2100 Sustainable Urban Design, presented at conference titled + 30 Network an organization of cities
working towards sustainable planning, Vancouver, Canada.
Feb 2004 Architecture and Cultural Significance, presented in the Lecture Series organized by the College of Architecture,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Goa 2100 Imagining a Sustainable Future, presented (with Aromar Revi and Sanjay Prakash) at the UDRI lecture
series, Mumbai.
Setting out the options for Bombay, presented as the introductory talk at the conference titled Bombays Eastern
Waterfront, organized by the Urban Design Research Institute and The Max Mueller Bhavan Bombay, India.
Oct 2003 Static Spaces, Kinetic Places Public Space in the Mega city of Bombay, presented at conference titled Cities
and Markets, organized by the International Federation of Housing and Planning, Vienna.
Goa 2100 Imagining a Sustainable Future, presented (with Aromar Revi) at the State Planning Board,
Government of Goa Workshop to discuss sustainable design options for the city of Panjim, Goa.
Sept 2003 Imaging Indias Urban Futures, presented at a conference titled India and its Futures, organized by South Asia
Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University, Washington.
May 2003 Goa 2100 Sustainable urban Design presented (with Aromar Revi and Sanjay Prakash) at the World Gas
Congress, Tokyo, Japan.
Oct 2002 Architecture and Cultural Significance (IV), organized by the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart Architecture and
Cultural Significance (III), lecture organized by Hyperwerk FHBB, Bund Schweizer Architekten, ETH Studio Basel
and Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel.
Apr 2002 Architecture and Cultural Significance (II), Capital and Karma Recent Positions in Indian Art, organized by the
Art and Theory Network DeEgo, Vienna.
Mar 2002 Planning for Conservation, presented at The Town Hall, Calcutta, organized by Society for Promotion of
Research & Education in Architecture and Design (SPREAD), Calcutta.
Feb 2002 Making Conservation Relevant to our Cities, organized by Architects Engineers and Surveyors Association, Pune.
Planning for Urban Conservation, delivered as the 2002or Prof. L. B. Kenny Endowment Lecture, organized by
The Asiatic Society of Bombay, Mumbai.
Planning for Conservation, presented at seminar titled National Policy for Heritage Conservation and
Management organized by Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) & Archaeological Survey
of India (ASI), New Delhi.
Dec 2001 Art & Architecture, Chitale Memorial Lecture, organized by The Indian Institute of Architects Tamil Nadu Chapter,
Egmore, Chennai.
Corporate & Community Initiatives in Conservation in Mumbai, organized by Chennai Heritage, Chennai.
Conservation in Bombay, presented to the Cambridge society of Bombay.
Planning for conservation presented at workshop on Conservation organized by INTACH Chennai chapter and
the Indian Institute of Technology Chennai.
Oct 2001 Constructing Cultural Significance and Conservation in Bombay, for Aus Heritage, Sydney, Australia.
Conserving and Building in Bombay presented at the University of Canberra, Australia.
Conserving Bombays Historic City Center delivered at the Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra, Australia.
The Works of RMA presented at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Sept 2001 Architecture and Cultural Significance, presented at conference titled Man.Architecure.Nature.Global-Local-
Glocal organized by Singapore Institute of Architects and Arcasia Forum 11, Singapore
Aug 2001 Working in Bombay The City as a Generator of Practice presented at Design Friday Forum, Bangalore.
The Architect and the City delivered to the Young Presidents Organization, Bangalore.
July 2001 Working in Bombay The City as a Generator of Practice delivered at IIA Indore Chapter, Indore Architecture,
Interior Design and Conservation presented at School of Architecture, Indore.
Mar 2001 Working in Bombay The City as Generator of Practice presented at the Industrial Design Center, IIT, Mumbai.
A Century of Building in South Asia presented at the Bombay University, Mumbai.
Feb 2001 Bazaars in Victorian Arcades Conserving Bombays Historic Fort Area in the Contemporary Context- at the
Georgian Group Study Day, London, U.K.
Tropical Architecture in India presented at International Conference on Human Habitat organized by the Rizvi
College of Architecture, Mumbai.
Jan 2001 An Architecture of Pluralism a Century of Building in South Asia, delivered at The British Council, Mumbai.
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Conservation in Bombay presented at a conference on Traditional Architecture organized by Madras Craft
foundation, Hampi, South India.
Nov 2000 Bazaars in Victorian Arcades Issues and Ideas for Conservation in India presented at the South Asia Center,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Oct 2000 Working in Bombay The City as a Generator of Practice, lecture delivered at Cornell University, USA.
Sept 2000 The Works of Rahul Mehrotra Associates, presented at the Fall 2000 Lecture Series, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, Michigan, USA.
July 2000 Conservation in Bombay, presented at seminar titled Cultural Significance: Construct or Criterion? CAME,
University of Adelaide, Australia.
Working in Bombay at a workshop on Asian Architecture, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
June 2000 Working in Bombay presentation at symposia title Crossing Thresholds, Royal Australian Institute of Architects,
Sydney, Australia.
May 2000 Improving and Conserving Bombay, presentation and panel discussion at the Rotary Club of Bombay.
April 2000 Conserving Bombays Fort Area Issues, Ideas and Lessons delivered at Conference titled Conservation after
Legislation, organized by the Urban Design Research Institute Max Mueller Bhavan Bombay.
Mar 2000 Protection of Architectural Heritage of Precincts and Buildings in Bombay presentation at seminar organized by
Intach, Pondicherry Chapter, Pondicherry.
Jan 2000 Planning for Conservation paper presented at an International Conference on Human Habitat organized by the
Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai.
Nov 1999 Bombay One Space, Two Worlds presented at Workshop on the Future of Asian Cities organized by the
Architektur Zentrum Wien, Vienna.
The projects of Rahul Mehrotra Associates, delivered at Akademie Der Bildenden Kunste Wien, Vienna.
Sept 1999 Planning for Conservation looking at the Fort Area Bombay presented at INTACH Seminar titled Conservation
of Historic Cities, New Delhi.
June 1999 The Architecture of Pluralism A Century of Building in South Asia, delivered at the UIA Conference at Beijing,
China.
May 1999 Bazaars In Victorian Arcades Conserving Bombays Historic Fort Area in the Contemporary Context, delivered
at the World Bank, Washington, D.C, U.S.A.
April 1999 Working In Bombay The City as Generator of Practice, Projects 1990-98, IIA Rajkot Chapter, Gujarat.
Nov 1998 Tropical Architecture in India presented at seminar titled Tropical Architecture, San Jose, Costa Rica.
Sept 1998 Working in Bombay The City as Generator of Practice delivered at the National University of Singapore.
Aug 1998 The City as Generator of Practice Lecture for DIAF forum at Bangalore.
Conservation Lesson from Bombay keynote address with Cyrus Guzder, Parisar Memorial lecture, Pune.
July 1998 Projects of Rahul Mehrotra Associates presented at the Annual International Convention of the Indian Institute of
Interior Designers, Baroda.
Jun 1998 Beginnings projects of Rahul Mehrotra Associates presented at the ANYTIME Conference, Ankara, Turkey.
Mar 1998 Working in Bombay delivered at AA Asia Forum, Singapore.
Recent works of Rahul Mehrotra Associates delivered at the annual lecture series of the J.J School of
Architecture, Mumbai.
Planning for Conservation, keynote address at Seminar titled Architecture + Heritage, organized by the UIA-IIA,
Aurangabad.
Feb 1998 Bazaars in Victorian Arcades The Conservation of Bombays Historic Core presented at seminar titled City
Space and Globalization at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Dec 1997 Bombay The Cities Within, delivered at the Technical University, Berlin.
Nov 1997 Working in Mumbai, delivered at seminar titled An Architecture of Independence: Modernism and the Next
Generation in South Asia, New York.
July 1997 Urban Conservation in Mumbai lessons for Hyderabad delivered at the Birla Science Center, Hyderabad.
Sept 1996 One Space, Two Worlds and the Architecture of Bombay delivered at the Urban Design Group Forum at London.
Mar 1996 The Individuals Gain is the Citys Loss, delivered at CEPT, Ahmedabad.
Nov 1995 Conserving an Image Centre The Fort Precinct Presented at the Indian International Center, New Delhi.
June 1995 Bazaars in Victorian Arcades, delivered at the Fine Arts Institute, Berlin.
Dec 1994 Continuing the Past into the Future presented for Seminar on Conservation in Bombay, at the Prince of Wales
Museum, Mumbai.
Sept 1994 The Geography of the Fort, presented at Seminar entitled Bombay under the East India Company, Local
History Society and British Council Division, Mumbai.
Sept 1993 Poetics of FSI, presented at Seminar titled Approaching the Modern Indian city, Max Mueller Bhavan
Hyderabad.
Oct 1993 The Fort Precinct, Bombay, presented at Seminar titled Conserving an Image Centre, Max Mueller Bhavan
Bombay and Bombay Conservation Group, Mumbai.
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Reclamation and Urban Design in Bombay, presented at Seminar on Bombay, Urban History Association of India,
New Delhi.
Aug 1993 Ugly Beautifications Private Enterprise and the Public Spaces of Bombay delivered at the Rotary Club, South
Bombay (and in April 1996 delivered at Rotary Club, Juhu), Mumbai.
Aug 1992 Bombays Open Spaces delivered at the Local History Society, Mumbai.
Mar 1991 The Evolution of a Core Urban Design in the Fort, Bombay delivered at the Town Hall, The Asiatic Society,
Mumbai.
Nov 1990 Urban Design in South Bombay Some Precedents and Emerging Issues, presented at a seminar on Urban
Design for the Rich and Poor, USIS, Mumbai.
Feb 1990 Responses to a Tradition the works of Claude Batley, delivered as the third Claude Batley Memorial Lecture,
Indian Institute of Architects, New Delhi.