BARD Studio is jointly set up by Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty.

RUPALI GUPTE is an architect, artist and urbanist based in Mumbai. She is a co-founder of and director and Professor at the School of Environment and Architecture (SEA), and a partner at BardStudio. She has recently been a senior Research fellow at the University of Brighton. Her work involves extensive research on contemporary South Asian architecture and urbanism with a focus on housing and urban form, tactical spatial practices, and the role of gender in shaping habitation. Her work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms – writings, drawings, mixed-media works, installations, curation, conversations, walks and spatial interventions. Her works have been shown nationally and internationally in biennales including the 56th Venice Art Biennale, X Sao Paolo Biennale of Art and Architecture, Seoul Biennale of Art and Architecture, Dhaka Art Summit, and galleries and museums such as MACBA Barcelona, MAAT Museum Lisbon, Mumbai Art Room, Devi Art Foundation, Project 88 and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. She has been on numerous juries and has lectured widely across the world.

PRASAD SHETTY is an urbanist based in Mumbai. He is one of the founder members of the School of Environment and Architecture and currently teaches there (sea.edu.in). He is a partner at the Bard Studio, Mumbai (bardstudio.in). He has also been one of the co-founders of the urban research network, CRIT (crit.in). Prasad has studied architecture (B-Arch, Mumbai University) and urban management (M-A, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Erasmus University, Rotterdam). Earlier he has worked with: Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority as an Urban Manager, MMR – Heritage and Environment Society as Secretary, Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture as a Lecturer, Town Administration of Mendefera, Eritrea as an Urban Management expert.  His work includes exploratory research and experimental pedagogy on different aspects of urban form, experience, practice and culture.

CONTACT

BARD STUDIO

Contact Address: B/1, Azad Apartments, Azad lane, Andheri West, Mumbai 400058, INDIA

Email: bardsmumbai@gmail.com

Rupali Gupte    :     rupali@sea.edu.in    :    +91-9821012510

Prasad Shetty    :    prasad@sea.edu.in    :    +91-9820912744