Miki Desai has an M. Arch from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He retired as a full professor from the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India at the end of April, 2009. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, 2000, the Graham Grant, 2005 and the Getty Collaborative Grant, 2006-2008. He is the co-author of Architecture and Independence: The Search for Identity: India 1880 to 1980, OUP, New Delhi. He is also the author of Architekture in Gujarat, Indien: Bauernhof, Stadthaus, Palast, the Rietberg Museum, Zurich: 1990. He has had the ICSSR and EARTHWATCH fellowships for research. He is writing two books, one on the Wooden Architecture of Kerala and another, as a co-author, on the Development of the Bungalow in India. He has taught and lectured at many universities in Europe and the USA. Photography has been his passion for the past 30 years.

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Address:
Miki Desai
ARCHICRAFTS, 10, Ranjan Society Part I, Naranpura Road,
Ahmedabad: 380 013, INDIA
Website: www.archicrafts.com

Birth Date:
April 3, 1947

Qualification:
M. Arch, USA

Architectural Practice:
Jointly with Madhavi Desai under the studio name ARCHICRAFTS since 1981
Second prize, the National Architectural Competition for the design of A.P.O.U, March 1988
Invited for an Architectural Competition for Civil Aviation Training Center at Allahabad, 1989
Consultant to "Walled City Revitalization Plan, Ahmedabad” undertaken by AMC and EPC, 1997

Architectural Exhibitions:
International Exhibition on the Traditional Architecture of Gujarat at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich, Switzerland, 1990
Contribution through a detailed wooden model (1: 20 scale) of a traditional Kerala Temple to an international exhibition called "Ill, Why?" at the Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany and other German speaking countries, 1995-1998

Fellowships/Research Grants:
Senior Research Fellowship, the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, 1995 to 1997
EARTHWATCH (USA) grant for documentation of Traditional Architecture of Kerala, 1996
Fulbright Fellowship to teach at the University of Texas at Austin, fall semester, 2000-2001
Graham Foundation Fellowship, 2005
Collaborative Grant from the Getty Foundation, USA for a book on the Bungalow in India, 2006-08

Teaching:
Teaching Assistant, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 1975 to 1978 
Adjunct Faculty (1981 to 1987) and Professor, School of Architecture, CEPT, Ahmedabad 1987 to present
Visiting Studio Critic at ETH, Zurich, MIT, USA and UC Berkeley, USA in 1988
On the Board of Studies, Goa College of Architecture from 1998 to 2000

Publications:
Coauthor, a chapter on Modern Architecture in Gujarat, Gujarat State Gazetteer, 1989
Author, Architekture in Gujarat, Indien: Bauernhof, Stadthaus, Palast (translated in German), an Exhibition Catalogue, The Rietberg Museum, Zurich: 1990
Contributor to the Dictionary of Art, McMillan Publishers Ltd., London: 1996
Coauthor, Architecture and Independence: The Search for Identity, India 1880 to 1980 Oxford University Press, New Delhi: 1997   
Contributor to the Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, (Ed.) Prof. Paul Oliver, Oxford Polytechnic, U.K. 1998
On the editorial board of the Journal of Southeast Asian Architecture from May 2003 onwards
Author, Traditional Wooden Architecture of Kerala, (in progress)
Co-author, The Cultural Expression of the Bungalow in India, Research Report: 2009

Lectures/Conferences:
MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Cincinnati and Renssler Polytechnic, 2000, the University of Texas at Austin, USA. 1978, 1988, 2000, the University of California at Berkeley & Davis, University of Arizona, Tuscon, 1980, The Aga Khan Program, MIT., USA & the ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, 1988
The English Heritage, South Bank Polytechnic, Oxford Polytechnic, Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, and the University of  York, UK, 1990
The National Center for Performing Arts, Mumbai, India, 1998
Taught an intensive Design Workshop at the Goa College of Architecture, Panaji, Goa, 2000
Member, core group, Meeting on Modern Heritage: Asia, UNESCO, Chandighar, 2003
Presented papers at mAAN International Conferences at Surabaya, Indonesia (2003), Shanghai, China (2004), Istambul, Turkey (2005), Tokyo, Japan (2006), Delhi, India (2009)
On the steering committee, mAAN International Conference at Shanghai, October 2004
Co-director, the fourth International Seminar on Vernacular Settlements (ISVS), CEPT University, 2008
Lectures at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Technical University of Berlin and Bern University of Applied Sciences