Visiting Indian Masters

 

Address: ARCHICRAFTS, 10, Ranjan Society Part I, Naranpura Road, Ahmedabad: 380 013, INDIA 
Phones: (O) 91-079-55135517 (R) 91-079-55317802 
e-mail: mmdesai2*yahoo.co.in (Spam protection - replace * with @)
Birth Date: April 3, 1947 
Qualification: M. Arch, USA
 
Architectural Practice:
 
Jointly with Madhavi Desai under the studio name ARCHICRAFTS since 1981.
Second prize at the National Architectural Competition for the Design of Andhra Pradesh Open University at Hyderabad, March 1988.
Participation in an invited (limited) two-phased Architectural Competition for the Design
Of Civil Aviation Training Center at Allahabad, in October 1989. 
Consultant to "Walled City Revitalization Plan, Ahmedabad: A Strategy for Comprehensive Development", a project jointly undertaken by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and EPC Consultants in association with Technical Support Services Inc. USA & USAID, 1997.
 
Architectural Exhibitions:
 
International Exhibition on the Traditional Architecture of Gujarat at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich, Switzerland, 1990.
Contribution through a detailed wooden model (1: 20 scale) of a traditional Kerala Temple to an international exhibition called "Ill, Why?" at the Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany and other German speaking countries, 1995-1998.
 
Fellowships/Research Grants:
 
Graham Foundation Fellowship, 2005
Fulbright Fellowship to teach at the University of Texas at Austin, fall semester, 2000-2001.
Senior Research Fellowship, the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, 1995 to 1997.
EARTHWATCH (USA) grant for documentation of Traditional Architecture of Kerala, 1996.
Shared a research grant by the Australian Research Council, 1993-1996 with Prof. Lang.
 
Teaching:
 
Teaching Assistant, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 1975 to 1978. 
Adjunct Faculty, School of Architecture, CEPT, Ahmedabad 1981 to 1987.
Professor, School of Architecture, CEPT, Ahmedabad 1987 to present 
Visiting Studio Critic at ETH, Zurich, MIT, USA and UC Berkeley, USA in 1988.
On the Board of Studies, Goa College of Architecture from 1998 to 2000.
 
Publications:
 
Coauthor, Architecture and Independence: The Search for Identity, India 1880 to 1980 Oxford University Press, New Delhi: 1997. 
Coauthor, a chapter on Modern Architecture in Gujarat for Gujarat State Gazetteer, Gandhinagar, 1989
Author, Architekture in Gujarat, Indien: Bauernhof, Stadthaus, Palast (translated in German), an Exhibition Catalogue, The Rietberg Museum, Zurich: 1990.
Contributor to the Dictionary of Art, McMillan Publishers Ltd., London: 1996.
Contributor to the Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, (Ed.) Prof. Paul Oliver, Oxford Polytechnic, U.K. 1998
On the editorial team to the Journal of Southeast Asian Architecture from May 2003 onwards
 
Lectures:
 
MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Cincinnati and Renssler Polytechnic, 2000 The University of Texas at Austin, USA. 1978,1988, 2000.
The University of California at Berkeley & Davis, University of Arizona, Tuscon, 1980. 
The Aga Khan Program, MIT., USA & the ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. 1988.
The English Heritage, South Bank Polytechnic, Oxford Polytechnic, Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, and the University of York, UK, 1990.
The National Center for Performing Arts, Mumbai, India, 1998.
Taught an intensive Design Workshop at the Goa College of Architecture, Panaji, Goa, 2000.
Presented a paper at the mAAN International Conference on "Documenting Built Heritage: Revitalization of modern Architecture in Asia" at Surabaya, Indonesia, 2003.
On the steering committee, mAAN International Conference at Shanghai, October 2004

Miki Desai's visit to South Africa in May 2005 was kindly sponsored by Paul Mikula as a gift to the South African Architectural Profession.