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THE ROOTS

An accident of fate is what pushed Kiran Venkatesh towards architecture, when his father and an uncle, an IIT alumnus, gently steered the young boy towards the B.Arch (Hons) course at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur.

THE NURTURING

At college, the students and teachers at the Architecture department were like a second family to Venkatesh. Here, he got precious extra-curricular education through conversations, debates, arguments and hard work. At Ohio State University, Columbus, USA (where he headed for his Master’s), Venkatesh developed a deep interest in enabling the “unprogrammed” components of a project, using the computer as a design tool and in the pursuit of architectural effects – formal and sectional. His time spent with Bengaluru-based architect, Dev Bildikar, who Venkatesh worked with in ’93-’94, was exciting and inspiring. “Our endless conversations on architecture, books, films, life... are something I will always cherish.” While the eccentric ways of teaching, convincing theoretical constructs and forceful rendering of architectural effects of Jeffrey Kipnis, professor at OSU, left a lasting impression, New York-based architect Peter Eisenman, who Venkatesh worked with briefly, taught him the value of pushing the boundaries of design, relationships and thinking through architecture.

THE FRUITS

Classmates in IIT, Venkatesh and Nithya Srinivasan (who also holds a Master’s in Architec

This story is from the July 2017 edition of Architect and Interiors India .

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