Beyond the Lines

Soumitro Ghosh is a partner at Mathew and Ghosh Architects, founded by Nisha Mathew in 1995, and an alumnus of the School of Architecture CEPT Ahmedabad. Their work covers private, private-public and public spaces in Bengaluru, including Freedom Park, the National Military Memorial, the Museum of Art and Photography and St Mark’s Cathedral Resource Centre. He is Academic Council chairperson at KRVIA, Mumbai. He has taught at the Bengal Institute, Dhaka, and at CEPT with Kumar Vyas, a founding member of NID, and has served as the Charles Correa Design Chair.

Annapurna Garimella is an art historian and designer based in Bangalore. Her work focuses on medieval architecture and art, and on architecture, design and craft after 1947. She is Managing Trustee of Art, Resources and Teaching Trust, which has a research library and conducts independent research and teaching. She also heads Jackfruit Research and Design, an organisation with a specialised portfolio of design, research and curation. Its recent curatorial projects include Mutable: Ceramic and Clay Art in India Since 1947 (Piramal Museum of Art, 2017) and The Past Has a Home in the Future: Dhoomimal Gallery and Connaught Place (New Delhi, 2024).

Meghal Arya is an architect, researcher and educator whose work explores the relationships between architecture, water, landscape, heritage and systems of knowledge embedded in the built environment. Her doctoral research, published as Spatial Ecology of Water, examined the knowledge embedded in the water structures of arid India. She has lectured at Harvard GSD, the University of Cape Town and ENSA Versailles, and has held visiting professor positions at ETSAM Madrid, Politecnico di Milano and TU Vienna. She is a fulltime Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, founding partner of Arya Architects, and Managing Trustee of AADI Centre.

S. Madhuri Rao is a practising architect, academic and researcher whose interests centre on the evolution of ideas, movements and practices at the intersection of architecture and design. She holds an undergraduate degree from BMS College, Bangalore, and a postgraduate degree in Theory and Design from CEPT University, Ahmedabad. She has taught History, Theory and Design at CEPT, DSCA, BMSCE, RVCA and WCFA. She co-authored Perspectives on Early Modernist Constructs in Architecture (CEPT University Press, 2012). In 2021–2022, her team received the IFA Project 560 grant for research on public statues and sculptures in post-1990s Bangalore.