Ph.D- SPA Delhi, PGCHE- Nottingham Trent University UK | B.Arch- SPA Delhi
Badrinarayanan Srinivasan (Badri) graduated as an architect in 1982 and worked in the design industry for 12 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 a visiting faculty at TVB School of Habitat Studies, SPA Delhi for 15 years where he developed many experimental and speculative studios. 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 Delhi from 2010 to 2021 in the Interior Architecture department, where he took the lead in curriculum development, and conducting interdisciplinary design workshops. He has been actively involved in training and conducting faculty workshops in design pedagogy at Pearl Academy, and other design institutes. He has been widely published and is on the board of studies for many design institutions. 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
2024
“Resuscitating the Pencil in the Design Studio”, International Symposium on Digital Pedagogies, RV University, Bengaluru, March 2024.
2022
Essay “Architecture, Life, and Liberation” Medium.com 6 July 2022
2021
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
2020
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
2019
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.
2018
Essay “Defining Design: Cutting Through Method and Madness”, INSITE Magazine, Institute of Indian Interior Designers, Vol. II, No.9, December 2018.
2016
Essay “Six Memos for Millennial Design Education”, INSITE Magazine, Institute of Indian Interior Designers, Vol. IX, No.9, September 2016.
2015
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.
2011
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.
2009
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
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.
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.
2007
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.
2006
Essay “Design Studio: Examining the Teacher”, ABACUS (Internationally refereed BiAnnual Journal on Architecture, Conservation, and Urban Studies), Vol.1, no.1, Monsoon 2006.
