𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐕𝟖 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 & 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐮 | 𝟑𝟎𝐭𝐡 & 𝟑𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 | 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐚 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐲
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐉𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐫:
Chitra Vishwanath (@chitrav89 )
Managing Director, Biome Environmental Solutions (@biomearchitecture ) Bengaluru.
Chitra is the original creator and managing director of Biome Environmental Solutions, a diverse team of 30 professionals engaged in the realm of ecological architecture and innovative water and waste solutions located in Bangalore, India. Coming from an artistic lineage, with a father who was a sculptor and a mother a homemaker, Chitra’s educational journey began in Banaras. Her family’s relocation to Nigeria in 1977 led her to pursue a civil engineering diploma at Auchi Polytechnic.
In 1990, after completing her studies at the School of Architecture CEPT India, Chitra initiated her architectural enterprise in Bangalore, marking the commencement of a fortuitous journey. At Biome, the aim has been to seamlessly fuse challenges encompassing materials, ecology, and requisites into holistic ecosystem designs.
Chitra’s involvement in education and design workshops is notable. She orchestrated a design workshop at Archiprix 2017 in CEPT Ahmedabad and held the Charles Correa Academic Chair at Goa College of Architecture in 2018. Presently, she has served as a design mentor at NITTE Mangalore since 2019. Her recent educational endeavors encompass leading the Monsoon semester at the School of Architecture CEPT Ahmedabad in both 2020 and 2021.
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This Indian rose nowadays has become a rarity- it has amazing scent. I purchase Rs 20 worth of it from a ten year old manning the cart - during her summer holidays … and then Ellumalai after finishing his tea offers to drop me to the office. And we chat.
He is suffering due to gas shortage. His auto runs on LPG.The cylinders are double and sometimes more than the normal in cost and has to wait too. He says people are changing the autos to electric but it is expensive and he cannot do it.
He is ready to wait.
He laments that we Indians vote by taking money and it is why we get wrong people who do not care for people.
I chide him he can take the money and vote for someone else. He says that is incorrect and cannot happen. So there is a sense of justice in dishonesty too.,,
Anyways he says he is ready to wait for the war to wear down or will apply to become someone’s driver…
Well even his option is related to the war .,, our lives are nothing without the fossil fuel .,,
A conversation that truly left us inspired. From designing her own home Sans Souci a space that reimagines the very idea of living to her belief that architecture must be democratic, sustainable, and rooted in the local, every word from Chitra Vishwanath was a lesson. She reminded us that we don’t need to bring back old styles, but rather borrow techniques to build better futures. And if her work were a movie? A romantic one that ends happy. That’s the kind of architecture we want to see in the world.
𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐕𝟖 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 & 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐮 | 𝟑𝟎𝐭𝐡 & 𝟑𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 | 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐚 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐲
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T Scales Podcast | Episode 15 Highlights
Sustainable architecture is not unaffordable.
It requires better decisions, detailing and execution.
Not just from architects, but from everyone involved.
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T-Scales Podcast | Episode 15 Highlights
Urban systems are built with intent. But over time, the way people interact with them changes.
What starts as access can slowly become allocation.
The question is how do we preserve the original intent as cities grow? #tscales #podcast #highlights #urban planning
T-Scales Podcast | Episode 15 Highlights
The money question in architecture is real.
Ar. Chitra Vishwanath thinks there’s a more important one to answer first.
🎙Full episode out now (link in bio)
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