Vikramaditya Prakash
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| Vikramaditya Prakash | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 4, 1963 Ludhiana, India |
| 💼 Occupation | Architect, architectural historian, author, academic |
| Title | Professor of Architecture, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs |
| Board member of | The Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative (GAHTC) |
| 👴 👵 Parent(s) | Aditya Prakash (architect) |
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Vikramaditya Prakash is an architect, architectural historian, and theorist. He is professor of Architecture at the University of Washington.[1]
Prakash is known for his work focusing on themes of modernity, postcolonialism, global history and architecture.[2] Prakash's focus on Indian architectural history is noticed through his work, particularly his 2012 book, The Architecture of Shivdatt Sharma (Mapin Publishing),[3] on the work of prominent 20th century Indian architect Shivdatt Sharma.[4][5] Prakash is the son of Aditya Prakash, a prominent late 20th century Indian architect and academic. He co-founded the Global Architectural History Teaching Collective (GAHTC) initiative with Mark Jarzombek in 2013.[6] In 2020, Prakash published One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash in which he explored the life and work of his father Aditya Prakash.
Early Life[edit]
Prakash was born in Ludhiana,[7] India, to parents Aditya Prakash and Savitri Prakash. He graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Punjab University in Chandigarh, before moving to the United States to pursue an M.A. and Ph.D. in History of Architecture and Urbanism at the Cornell University.[8]
Career[edit]
Prakash serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Washington's College of Built Environment. From 2002 to 2007, he served as Chair of the Department of Architecture from 2002 to 2007 and Associate Dean for External Affairs at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Prakash's career includes collaborative projects with other scholars, in particular Mark Jarzombek at MIT, that examine contemporary architectural history, theory and practice from a global perspective. He has also previously worked as a visiting assistant professor at the Arizona State University's Department of Architecture in Tempe, Arizona and as visiting faculty at the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (now CEPT University) in Ahmedabad, India. These include the following:
Podcast[edit]
Prakash hosts Architecture Talk a bi-weekly podcast featuring interviews with contemporary architects, architectural historians, and scholars in the field.[9][10] As of April 2024, the podcast had 151 episodes. American historian James McWilliams in The American Scholar described the podcast as a show that "seeks brilliance in the mundane" and "leaves us looking at the everyday space around us with greater curiosity, piqued by the weirdest and most beautiful of stuff."[11]
Office of (Un)Certainty Research (OUR)[edit]
Prakash is co-design lead (with Mark Jarzombek) of OUR - Office of (Un)Certainty Research, a "research practice aimed at rethinking architecture in relation to the emerging scientific and socio-political parameters of the 21st century".[12] OUR's design projects include 'Cenotaph for Niels Bohr', 'Tirtha: Recomposting Temple Complex' and Kishkindha: New York'. The office has exhibited at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale [13][14] where it collaborated with the Global Architectural History Teaching Collective (GAHTC) to exhibit 'Many Houses/Many Worlds'. It has also exhibited its work at the European Cultural Centre in Venice as part of the Time, Space, Existence' exhibition in 2021 and 2023.[15]
Global Architectural History Teaching Collective (GAHTC)[edit]
The Global Architectural History Teaching Collective consists of over 200 teachers of global architectural history and was founded by Prakash and Jarzombek who were co-PI's of a total of a $3.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation that funded this project.[16] The collective provides practical lecture material for teachers of global architectural history and its library now consists of over 300 free lectures on its teacher to teacher platform.[17]
Chandigarh Urban Lab (CUL)[edit]
Prakash is the director of the Chandigarh Urban Lab - a series of interdisciplinary international studios focused on contemporary Indian architecture and urbanism.[18]
Select publications[edit]
Books[edit]
- One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash (Mapin Publishing, 2020)[19]
- CHD Chandigarh Architectural Travel Guide (Altrim Publishers, 2015)[20][lower-alpha 1]
- Modernism in India: The Architecture of Shivdatt Sharma (Mapin Publishing, 2012)[21][lower-alpha 2]
- Chandigarh's Le Corbusier: The Struggle for Modernity in Postcolonial India (Mapin Publishing, 2002)[22][lower-alpha 3]
Edited volumes and collections[edit]
- Prakash, Vikramaditya, Maristella Casciato, and Daniel E. Coslett, eds. Rethinking global modernism: Architectural historiography and the postcolonial. Routledge, 2021[23]
- A Global History of Architecture (Wiley and Sons publishers, 2006 - 1st edition) (2011 - 2nd edition) (2017 - 3rd edition)[24][lower-alpha 4]
- Colonial Modernities: Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon (Routledge Publishing, 2007)[25][lower-alpha 5]
Exhibitions[edit]
| Year | Exhibition | Place | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Venice Architecture Biennale | Venice, Italy | |
| 2010 | Indian Modernism: The Architects of Nehru’s Chandigarh Exhibition | Swissnex San Francisco | As part of the From Chandigarh to Nano City Symposium, with Glen Barfield, Tyler Sprague |
| 2010 | Indian Modernists: Aditya Prakash and Shivdatt Sharma Exhibition | Chandigarh College of Architecture, Chandigarh, The Aditya Prakash Foundation, India | With Glen Barfield |
| 2009 | Aditya Prakash: Architecture and Painting Exhibition | Chandigarh College of Architecture, Chandigarh, The Aditya Prakash Foundation, India | With Glen Barfield[26] |
Awards and grants[edit]
| Year(s) | Name or subject | Type | From | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Architectural Education Awards[27] | Award | The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture | The ACSA gave Prakash the title of ACSA Distinguished Professor[28] |
| 2014, 2016 and 2019 | Funding for the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative (GAHTC) initiative[29] | Grant | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | a total of $3.5m in grants: $1 million (2014), $1.5 million (2016) and $1 million (2019). |
| 2018 | The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant[30] | Grant | The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts | For his 2020 book One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash. |
See also[edit]
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ A guide to the city of Chandigarh containing eleven itineraries, 185 buildings and places to visit, and other practical tips for getting around the city.
- ↑ With a foreword by Balkrishna V. Doshi, this is a monograph on the works of Shivdatt Sharma, a prolific Indian modernist architects. The book documents the heritage of modernism and modernist architecture in India.
- ↑ A story of the planning and architecture of Chandigarh as seen through the relationship between this evolving city and its architect, Le Corbusier, whose vision of the city included an upgrade to modern times while retaining the charm and joys of traditional pastoral life.
- ↑ Co-authored with Mark Jarzombek and Francis D. K. Ching, The work covers the history of global architecture spanning from 3500 BC to the 20th century which, through Ching's illustrations and Prakash's and Jarzombek's scholarship, highlights the connections of architectural movements throughout history and from all over the world.
- ↑ Co-edited with Peter Scriver, this is a collection of essays focused on British India and Ceylon that explore the effects of colonial architecture—and the empire-building projects that they are a part of—on the colonizers and the colonized.
References[edit]
- ↑ "About – Vikramaditya Prakash". Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ↑ "Vikram Prakash -". Retrieved 2022-06-28.
- ↑ "A Reading of 'The Architecture of Shivdatt Sharma' and 'A Concise…". Phantom Hands. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ↑ Matter (2019-06-17). "MODERN HERITAGE: In Retrospection: Shivdatt Sharma". MATTER. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ↑ "In Conversation With Ar. Shivdatt Sharma: On the Chandigarh School of…". Phantom Hands. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ↑ "Teaching Resources from GAHTC". Society of Architectural Historians. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
- ↑ "In Conversation With Professor Vikramaditya Prakash: On the Authors…". Phantom Hands.
- ↑ "Vikram Prakash". Architecture. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
- ↑ "About". ARCHITECTURE TALK. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
- ↑ Prakash, Vikramaditya. "Architecture Talk Podcast – Vikramaditya Prakash". Retrieved 2022-07-13.
- ↑ "Storytelling in the Podcast Age". The American Scholar. 2019-04-02. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
- ↑ "About OUR". Office of (Un)certainty Research. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ↑ "Biennale Architettura 2021 | Mark Jarzombek and Vikramaditya Prakash". La Biennale di Venezia. 2020-04-15. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ↑ "Many Houses, Many Worlds". Office of (Un)certainty Research. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ↑ "Participants". timespaceexistence.com. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ↑ "About GAHTC". gahtc.org. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ↑ "Teaching Resources from GAHTC". Society of Architectural Historians. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
- ↑ "Chandigarh Urban Lab | A project on the modernist city in the age of globalization". Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ↑ Prakash, Vikramaditya (2021). One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash. Mapin Publishing Pvt. Limited. ISBN 978-81-89995-68-3. Search this book on
- ↑ "chd chandigarh architectonical travel guide, book to visit routes in India". Altrim Publishers Architecture & Travel Guides. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
- ↑ Prakash, Vikramaditya (2012). The Architecture of Shivdatt Sharma. Mapin Pub. ISBN 978-1-935677-22-2. Search this book on
- ↑ Prakash, Vikramaditya (2002). Chandigarh's Le Corbusier: The Struggle for Modernity in Postcolonial India. Mapin Pub. ISBN 978-81-85822-99-0. Search this book on
- ↑ Prakash, Vikramaditya; Casciato, Maristella; Coslett, Daniel E. (2021-11-22). Rethinking Global Modernism: Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-47163-2. Search this book on
- ↑ Ching, Francis D. K.; Jarzombek, Mark M.; Prakash, Vikramaditya (2010-12-13). A Global History of Architecture. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-40257-3. Search this book on
- ↑ Scriver, Peter; Prakash, Vikramaditya (2007). Colonial Modernities: Building, Dwelling, and Architecture in British India and Ceylon. Routledge. Search this book on
- ↑ "Exhibitions – Vikramaditya Prakash".
- ↑ Amanda (2020-02-27). "ACSA Announces Recipients of 2020 Architectural Education Awards". Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
- ↑ "Vikram Prakash". Architecture.
- ↑ "Recent Opportunities | Society of Architectural Historians". Default. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
- ↑ "Graham Foundation > Grantees > Vikramaditya Prakash". www.grahamfoundation.org. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
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