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“Think global, design local”, my very un-original motto.
Curriculum Vitae
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Short Bio
Dr. Vikramāditya Prakāsh grew up in Chandigarh, India. He received
his B. Arch. 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. Dr. Prakāsh served as the Associate Dean of
the College of Architecture and Urban Planning from July 2001 to May 2002,
and as Chair of the Department of Architecture from July 2002 to December
2006.
Besides studios, Dr. Prakāsh 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, globalization, cultural studies and postcolonial theory.
Dr. Prakāsh has published several paper and books including Chandigarh's
Le Corbusier: The Struggle for Modernity in Postcolonial India (University of
Washington Press, Seattle & Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, 2002), A
Global History of Architecture (with Francis DK Ching & Mark
Jarzombek, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006) and Colonial Modernities:
Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon
(co-edited with Peter Scriver, Routledge, 2007). A Global History is being
translated into five languages.
Dr. Prakāsh is currently working on A New History of the Architecture of India
a multi-media, multi-format project intended to put colonial histories of
India finally to rest. He has also just initiated an ‘India Program’
based out of Chandigarh, India intended as an multidisciplinary forum to
discuss and imagine the possibilities of a sustainable future for the cities
of India.
Dr. Prakāsh
is partner in Verge Architecture with Leah
C. Martin and Chetna Purnami. He lives in Seattle with his wife and three
children.
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