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B.Arch., School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi

Ph.D. (School of Planning & Architecture, Delhi)

PGCHE (Nottingham Trent University)

Prof. (Dr.) Badrinarayanan Srinivasan

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Key Expertise Architectural education, Design pedagogy, Curriculum design

B.Arch., School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi

Ph.D. (School of Planning & Architecture, Delhi)

PGCHE (Nottingham Trent University)

Biography

Badrinarayanan Srinivasan (Badri) graduated as an architect in 1982 and worked in the design industry for 10 years before setting up a multi-disciplinary design practice in 1994. In the span of 20 years, he executed many architecture, interior, graphics, products, and exhibition projects. He has been passionately involved with academics for 35 years and has a PG certificate in higher education (PGCHE) from Nottingham Trent University (UK), and a PhD in architecture (SPA, Delhi).

He taught at Pearl Academy from 2010 to 2021 in the Interior Architecture department, where he took the lead in curriculum design, development, and conducting interdisciplinary design workshops. He has been actively involved in training and conducting workshops in design pedagogy at Pearl Academy, and other design institutes. A keen student of Buddhism, he likes to ponder and write about the critical connections between theory and practice, arts and sciences, philosophy and the everyday.

Stuff & Space Layout

Making and Materials (Projection Drawings)

Architectural Design (Forensic Analysis)

Capstone Project

Interior Design Atelier

Architectural Design Atelier

First Prize, International Lighting design competition for Mahabodhi Shrine

Most eccentric faculty, Pearl Academy, 2021

Most Idealistic faculty, Pearl academy, 2021

Most Enlightened Faculty, Pearl Academy, 2021

al Network for Traditional Architecture Building and Urbanism) patronized by HRH Prince of Wales

Member CoA (Council of Architecture)

Member IIID (Indian Institute of Interior Designers)

Member, jury, National Awards, IIID

External examiner, Ph. D Program, Strathclyde University, Glasgow

External examiner, Architecture Program, Roorkee University

Member Board of Management, Ansal University, Gurugram

“Resuscitating the Pencil in the Design Studio”, International Symposium on Digital Pedagogies, RV University, Bengaluru, March 2024.

Essay “Architecture, Life, and Liberation” Medium.com 6 July 2022

Essay “Gender of a Designer’s Mind”- Medium.com 25 June 2021

Essay “Meaning Deficit Management: A Theory to Replace Work-Life Balance?”- Medium.com 13 Feb 2021

Essay “Architecture: Form-Feeling-Emptiness”, VERANDA: an interdisciplinary jounal published by Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2020.

Essay “The Bardo of Lockdown”- Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. LV no. 20, May 16, 2020.

Essay “Design as Karma”- Medium.com, 1 July 2020.

Essay “The Structure of Desire”- Medium.com, 15 July 2020.

Essay “The Structure of Self”- Medium.com, 18 July 2020.

Essay “The Bicycle School”- Medium.com, 22 July 2020.

Essay “Design pedagogy in India—The Three Tensions”- Medium.com 23 Aug 2020.

Essay “Our Love-Hate Relationship with Narcissism”-12 Sep 2020.

Essay “Mentors—An Endangered Species?”- 26 Sep 2020.

Essay “The Mobocracy of Social Media”- 15 Oct 2020.

Essay “It is Not Death We Should Fear but Birth”- Medium.com 7 Nov 2020

Co-authored paper “Improving Learning in Higher Education: Case Study of the Effects of Positive Leadership on Students and Faculty”, Vol. 2, Issue 1, January-February 2019, IJASS (International Journal of Arts and Social Science).

Research Paper “Applying Constructivist Principles to the Architecture of a Curriculum: An Experiment at Pearl Academy”, International Conference on Architecture Pedagogy, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, 11-13 Nov. 2019.

Essay “Defining Design: Cutting Through Method and Madness”, INSITE Magazine, Institute of Indian Interior Designers, Vol. II, No.9, December 2018.

Essay “Six Memos for Millennial Design Education”, INSITE Magazine, Institute of Indian Interior Designers, Vol. IX, No.9, September 2016.

Abstract proposal for paper “A Buddhist approach to design process: The significance of Emptiness (Shunyata) in the search for Form” accepted for virtual presentation at Design Principles and Practices Conference at Vancouver, 2014-2015.

Essay “Three Holy Myths of Architectural Education in India”, as trigger article in Archnet- IJAR, Vol.5, Issue No.2, spring 2011.

Paper “Application of Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory to Teaching Architectural Design Principles- A Case Study from India”— presented at Design Principles Conference, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, February 2011.

Essay “Of Cuboid Blocks and Columns…”, a critique of the new extension to the National Gallery of Modern Art, Architecture+ Design, Vol. xxvi, no. 8, August 2009

Essay “Three Holy Myths of Architectural Education in India”, ABACUS (Internationally refereed Bi-Annual Journal on Architecture, Conservation, and Urban Studies), Vol.3, No.1, spring 2008.

Essay “Form and Structure”, Architecture+ Design, Vol. xxv, no.10, October 2008.

Essay “Three Holy Myths of Architectural Education in India”, ABACUS (Internationally refereed Bi-Annual Journal on Architecture, Conservation, and Urban Studies), Vol.3, No.1, spring 2008.

Essay “Form and Structure”, Architecture+ Design, Vol. xxv, no.10, October 2008.

Paper “Traditional context: Constructivist Approach in the Design Studio”, presented at the International INTBAU Conference on “Development of Indian Traditions”, New Delhi, January 2007.

Essay “Indian Architect: Bohemian Brahmin?” Architecture+ Design, Vol. xxiv, No.6, June 2007.

Essay “Developing Indian Traditions: Constructivist Approach in the Design Studio” at the INTBAU International Conference on “New Architecture and Urbanism”: Development of Indian Traditions”, Jan 2007

Essay “Traditional Context: Constructivist Approach in the Design Studio”, Research paper presented at the International INTBAU Conference on “Development of Indian Traditions”, New Delhi, January 2007.

Essay “Indian Architect: Bohemian Brahmin?”, Architecture+ Design, Vol. xxiv, No.6, June 2007.

Essay “Design Studio: Examining the Teacher”, ABACUS (Internationally refereed BiAnnual Journal on Architecture, Conservation, and Urban Studies), Vol.1, no.1, Monsoon 2006.
Key Expertise Architectural education, Design pedagogy, Curriculum design
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