Prof. Smita Dalvi’s essay titled, 'Rice, Salt and Cartwheels: the story of Panvel Bunder' features in a beautifully produced volume: 'Gateways to the Sea: Historic Ports and Docks of Mumbai Region'. It is conceptualised and edited by Maritime Mumbai Museum Society and published by the
We are proud to announce that one of our faculty members teamed up with a student to participate in an international competition and secured laurels. The team of PiCA Professor Smita Dalvi, PiCA final year student Shah Faisal, and Prof. Mustansir Dalvi (Sir JJ College of
Prof. Smita Dalvi published a book titled, ‘Celebrating India in 75 Buildings’. The book is published by MES Publications. It can be ordered here: https://pages.razorpay.com/mes-publications-pica [layerslider id="347"] The book is a unique compilation that showcases significant structures from 1947-2022, unravelling independent India's architectural evolution. An invaluable resource
Prof. Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna’s research titled "Lakes Panvel: examining the historic socio-spatial water systems" was awarded the Saint-Gobain Grants Program in 2022. The research examined Panvel’s historic water talavs (water tanks) located within its old core urban fabric. The research offers an insight into the socio-cultural dynamics
[su_row class=""][su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""][layerslider id="82"][/su_column][su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] As part of her Saint Gobain Scholarship Research project "Kalyan-smrutiGandh", Prof. Tejashree Lakras successfully came up with two interesting outcomes which generated heritage awareness amongst locals of Kalyan. The first outcome being an exhibition of sheets expressing
Prof. Smita Dalvi authored the book ‘Panvel: Great City, Fading Heritage’ that was released on 17th January 2020, at the august hands of Mr. Sudhir Patwardhan, India’s topmost artist and Dr. K.M. Vasudevan Pillai, chairman of Mahatma Education Society. [su_row class=""][su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""][layerslider id="73"][/su_column][su_column size="1/2"
view press release Prof. Tejashree Lakras, Faculty at Pillai College of Architecture, Panvel was awarded the 2019 Saint Gobain Scholarship Award for her project named “KALYAN - SMRUTIGANDH” - [su_row class=""][su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""][layerslider id="71"][/su_column][su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] Documenting the rich architectural history and heritage of old Kalyan
view press release Prof. Richa Sharma, faculty at the M.Arch. course at Pillai College of Architecture was awarded the 2013 MASA Best Teacher Award for related design discipline in Urban Design at the two day MASA annual convention held recently at MGM’s Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College
