City: BENGALURU

P N Medappa, graduated from Malnad college of engineering, has 35 years of experience. He has briefly worked with Sri.Sharad Padalkar before joining Chandavarkar and Thacker where he worked for about 11 years. He was inducted as a partner in the prestigious firm Mindspace in 2008.

Medappa believes in human-centric, climate responsive, sustainable design. His constant search for spacial experience, poetics of light, integrating nature into the built is aimed at engaging emotive senses and spawn tranquil feeling.He believes that design is a language binding creativity and context.

He has achieved several accolades, including the A+D Spectrum Award for Institutional Architecture in 2006, the JK Cements Commendation Award in 2008 and again in 2010, the NDTV Design and Architectural Award in the Institutional category in 2014, and most recently in 2023, the JK Cements Architect of the Year Award for the design of KIPCER project in Bangalore.

Ar Sanjay Mohe is one of the most respected Architects in India. For someone who lets his work do the talking always, his sustainable and simplicity-oriented designs with an embedded spatial and sensory experience has a deep connect with India’s traditional culture. Founder of the fifteen-year-old Bengaluru-based Mindspace, Ar Mohe has held many positions of repute prior to that. He has had a working association of 21 years with Bengaluru’s famous Chandravarkar and Thacker Associates (CnT), besides which his work experience also counts his years spent with Ar Charles Correa in Mumbai and his work stint in Saudi Arabia. A prodigy of India’s first architectural institute – Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai, his work straddles a spectrum of projects – Research Laboratories, Knowledge Parks, Campus Designs, Factories, Beach Resorts, Libraries, Corporate Offices, Hospice and Residences. Ar. Sanjay Mohe has a lot of awards to his credit. Some of them include,

“J K Cements Architect of the Year Award – 2013 for Rohan Mithila Housing, Pune

“A+D architect of the year award in 2009”

“J K Cements Architect of the Year Award – 2008 for Dr Reddy’s, IPDO, Hyderabad

“A+D & Spectrum Foundation Architecture Award 2007” for Hindustan Unilever Ltd Bangalore

“J K Cements Architect of the Year Award – 2007” for Hindustan Unilever Ltd at Bangalore

“J K Cement Architect of the Year Award – 2004” for N.S Raghavan centre at 11M Bangalore

“A+D & Spectrum Foundation Architecture Award 2004” for Aurigene Discovery at Bangalore

“JK Cement State Architect 01 the Year Award – 2003” for BRBNM Bangalore

“The Award of the Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects — 2002 ” For Nift Chennai

“JK Cement Architect of the Year Award – 2001 ” For Nift Chennai

“JK Cements Indian Architect of the Year Award – 1999” for Nift Hyderabad

“JK Cements State Architect of the Year Award – 1 999” for Karunashraya at Bangalore

“ar+d – 1999” International Annual Award of Architectural Review, London and dtline, For JRD Digital Library Bangalore

“The Award of the Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects – 1997”, for 3RD Tata Digital Library at Bangalore

“JK Cements Architect of the Year Award for Industrial Architecture – 1991 ‘v for TTK at Hosur

Ar. Bijoy Ramachandran (Student Jury)

Bijoy Ramachandran is an architect and urban designer based in Bangalore. He is currently a partner at Hundredhands. Bijoy has a a Masters degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, in Architecture & Urbanism. 

He has been a panellist at the annual all-India undergraduate thesis review, the Kurula Varkey Forum, at CEPT, Ahmedabad, and is currently the Design Chair in the Department of Architecture, BMS College of Architecture, Bangalore. Bijoy is also an external moderator for the final year design studio at the Department of Architecture, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and serves on the Academic Council of the Wadiyar Centre for Architecture Mysore and Avani Institute of Design, Calicut.

 

Ar. K.R. Jaisim is a practicing architect with his firm FOUNTAINHEAD since 1970. His contribution in architecture field can not be ignored. His firm has developed so many Presently he is CHAIRMAN – INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS – Karnataka chapter, Fellow – United Writer’s Association, Fellow – Indian society of lighting engineers, Fellow – The Indian Institution of Valuers, India, Registered – Council of Architecture (CA/75/1790), Charter President – Rotary Club – Cubbon Park, P.President – Practicing Architects Association, Member (Treasurer) – Board of Governors –INSTRUCT, Professor (Design chair) – B M S COLLEGE – Dept. of Architecture, Member of so many well known organizations, Visiting professor of various architectural colleges, Adjunct Professor – M.I.T. . He has won so many awards in his field of architecture. And his journey continues.

 

Ar. Anjali B. Yagnik, Bengaluru

Ar. Anjali Yagnik is from Bangalore, India. Have done M.Arch from USA and B.Arch from CEPT, Ahmedabad. She is Professional Architect running his own firm Vijay and Anjali Yagnik Architects at Bangalore. She has Completed various projects in different parts of India.

Having completed his B.Arch from CEPT in Ahmedabad, Ar. Renganathan is presently the principal architect and a partner at the Flying Elephant Studio in Bangalore. 

He has a number of well-known projects to his credit, to mention a few:

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Science City museum in Patna

National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management Campus in Chennai

International Institute of Information Technology in Bangalore

Schools for the Azim Premji Foundation across India, and many others.

His works have won many competitions and earned him numerous awards such as 

The 2014 International Architecture Award at the Chicago Athenaeum

The 2011 Holcim award for sustainable architecture, Switzerland

The 2009 AR Award for emerging architecture in UK, and others

Additionally, he was also nominated for the 2013 Aga Khan Award for architecture, Switzerland.