Parul Kiri Roy is an architect, academician and architectural historian, who primarily engages with the idea of architecture as an outcome of occupied space, of people’s needs and experience of the built environment. Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, she explores the correlation between education and the practice of art and architecture in our country. Haunted strongly by the holy spectre of modernism, her pedagogical practice of teaching ‘studio’ and her research involves a continuous engagement and contestation with terms such as the vernacular and the modern. She has completed her PhD titled, The Kacchā- Pakkā Transformation: Modernisation of the House in Rural India. As a Founding Member of Investigating Design, Parul is also actively engaging with marginalised communities through several social initiatives.
