Himanshu Burte

Himanshu Burte, an architect and urbanist, is the Associate Professor at the Centre for Urban Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (IIT-B). He taught for eight years at the School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences(TISS), Mumbai. He has a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and has practiced architecture for over 15 years. Burte is a co-founder of Gubbi Alliance for Sustainable Habitat (www.gubbi.org). A former Fulbright Fellow (University of California, Berkeley, 2008-09), he was a member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of Marg Publications, Mumbai (2014-2019). Some of his recent publications are Infrastructure as Space: Development and its (Dis)Contents (Marg, 2019), Urban Parallax: Policy and the City in Contemporary India (Yoda Press, New Delhi, 2018), and Space for Engagement: The Indian Artplace and a Habitational Approach to Architecture (Seagull Books, Kolkata, 2008).

2020 Vol 3 Qtr 1 Basic Conversations

Critical Thinking and Everyday Space

The best way to envision spaces of the future is to not ‘visualise’ them, but allow empirical realities and practice values guide our design

By Himanshu Burte / July 2, 2020

Himanshu Burte

Himanshu Burte, an architect and urbanist, is the Associate Professor at the Centre for Urban Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (IIT-B). He taught for eight years at the School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences(TISS), Mumbai. He has a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and has practiced architecture for over 15 years. Burte is a co-founder of Gubbi Alliance for Sustainable Habitat (www.gubbi.org). A former Fulbright Fellow (University of California, Berkeley, 2008-09), he was a member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of Marg Publications, Mumbai (2014-2019). Some of his recent publications are Infrastructure as Space: Development and its (Dis)Contents (Marg, 2019), Urban Parallax: Policy and the City in Contemporary India (Yoda Press, New Delhi, 2018), and Space for Engagement: The Indian Artplace and a Habitational Approach to Architecture (Seagull Books, Kolkata, 2008).