M.F.A.
2009: Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Sweden
B. Arch.
2000: University of Mumbai, India
Research and Consultancy
Practicing architecture from 2000 until 2018
Matheran street furniture manual for the Municipal Council of Matheran
Important Publications
Sayed, N., Diaz Kommonen, L., & Sayed, S. (2019), “Saintlore of Tapal Naka: Meaning of an architectural place as generated through belief narratives”, Belief Narratives in Folklore Studies: Narrating the Supernatural, Guwahati, Assam.
Sayed, N., & Diaz Kommonen, L. (2019, February 22), “Trading communities of a coastal town in India and their communal response to development process” [Indian Anthropology Conference].
Sayed, N., & Diaz Kommonen, L. (2018, October 26), “Place as flux: A visual narrative as a tool for research” [10th Architectural Research Symposium].
Sayed, N., & Diaz, L. (2016), “‘Open narratives’: Narrative as cocreation through collective cultural memory”, Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Open Design for Every Thing, Cumulus, Hong Kong.
Sayed, N., Sayed, S., Heikkinen, T., & Garduño García, C. (2011), “The Performative approach to design: Beyond the legacy of modernism and Corbusier”, Contemporary Architecture – Beyond Corbusierism, 327–337
