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Using
architecture and urbanism as my vehicles of exploration, I am interested in
the transitions between the local and the global. I am interested in the
history and practice of architecture of India, in particular as it is forging
itself in the new economies of the 21st century. As a historian, academic
administrator and small practitioner, I believe in the ideal of global
citizenship and of the constitutive role of architecture and urbanism in
helping build a sustainable, diverse and meaningful world.
“Think global, design
local” is my very un-original motto.
Click here for my Résumé and
my Careeer
Narrative
Click here for the Application
and PowerPoint
of my India Program for Winter 09
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Short Bio:
Dr. Vikramaditya (Vikram) Prakash grew up in Chandigarh, India. He
received a Bachelors of Architecture from the Chandigarh College of
Architecture, Panjab University (1986), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in History and
Theory of Architecture and Urbanism from Cornell University
(1989, 1994). He taught at the Center
for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India (1991 - 1993)
and Arizona State University,Tempe (1994-1996) before coming to the University of Washington in Fall 1996.
Besides studios, Dr. Prakash
teaches introductory and advanced courses in South Asian
architecture and urbanism, a university-wide introductory course in world
architecture, and graduate seminars in issues around modernism, regionalism,
globalization and postcolonial theory.
Dr. Prakash has
organized several international conferences and presented numerous papers on
these topic. His book Chandigarh's Le Corbusier: The Struggle for
Modernity in Postcolonial India has been co-published by the University of Washington
Press , Seattle
and Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad,
India (2002).
His new textbook A Global History of Architecture, co-authored with
his colleagues Professor Frank Ching (UW) and Professor Mark Jarzombek (MIT),
has recently been published by John Wiley and
Sons, Inc.(2006). A
Global History is currently being translated into five languages.
He has also co-edited Colonial
Modernities: Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon
(Routledge, 2007) with Professor Peter Scriver (University of Adelaide).
Dr. Prakash is currently
interested in studying the impact of India's new economy on its architecture
and cities. He is also working on A
New History of the Architecture of India .
Dr. Prakash served as the
Associate Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning from July
2001 to May 2002, and subsequently as Chair of the Department of Architecture
from July 2002 to December 2006.
Dr. Prakash is partner in
Verge Architecture with his wife Leah C.
Martin. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.
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