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Shantanu Bhalla

Shantanu Bhalla

New York, NY, US

 
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About 

Employment 

Self-Employed Project Architect, Mumbai, IN, Project Architect

Contracted to work as an independent consultant for the Government of India. Projects include a masterplan for rural development in a village, design and construction of 3 public buildings in rural environments and a public pavilion at a place of historical value. The project also called for an academic agenda, where I organised and led a group of student to survey, analyse, draw and speculate, through site visits and charrette's.

Apr 2016 - current
 

E-Architects, New York, NY, US, Design Research Assistant

Design Research Assistant to Professor Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa.
Research and design speculation on the "urbanism of information" for emerging and unseen information based urban environments in New York City.

Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
 

White 3 Design and Construction Pvt Ltd., Mumbai, IN, Project Architect

Design and production of working drawings and working details, project management and site supervision, with client, consultant and contractor coordination for a luxury villa, hospitality projects, interior and landscape design.

May 2015 - Jun 2016
 

XCOOP, Mumbai & Rotterdam, Design and Research Intern

Design and research for self revival of community life in post earthquake Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Masterplan and design manual.
Graphical representations for birdwatching pavilions in NL.
Design and research on the middle income housing scenario in post-industrial Mumbai.

Feb 2014 - Nov 2014
 

Kishimoto Gordon Dalaya PC, Washington, DC, US, Intern Architect

Part of the team for a proposal towards NAIOP Office Building of the Future competition.
Massing diagrams for ongoing projects and digitisation of general details for the office database.

Apr 2012 - Jun 2012
 

Education 

The Cooper Union, New York, NY, US, MArch, Master of Architecture II

Advance Design Research Studio
Fall 2017: Professor Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa.
Spring 2018: Professor Diana Agrest.
Summer Thesis: "Making Sense(s)", Advisor Professor Mersiha Veledar, with Dean Nader Tehrani and studio critics Professor Lauren Kogod, Professor Anna Bokov, Professor Michael Young and Professor James Lowder.

Seminars in Urban Studies, History/Theory and Criticism, and Technology.

Two Public Exhibitions of work: May 2018 and September 2018 at the Houghton Gallery, New York

Essay presented as part of the proceedings for the ACSA Fall Conference 2018.

Archive Assistant at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive. September 2017-September 2018

Aug 2017 - Sep 2018
 

University of Mumbai - Academy of Architecture, Mumbai, IN, BArch, Bachelor of Architecture

Graduation Thesis Project: "Subjunctive Education - A study of metaphysical readings from Architecture that inspired narratives and spaces for an Indian Urban Education District" - Advised by Professor Chaitaniya A Karnik

Jul 2010 - May 2015
 

Areas of Specialization 

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