B.voc Visiting Faculty

Urvashi Purohit

Assistant Professor

Varsha Swar

Assistant Professor

ATUL R. LOHAR

Visiting Faculty

Ar. DEEPTI BADKAR CHOGLE

Visiting Faculty

Darshan Arun Pithva

Visiting Faculty

Ar. Aditi Thakar

Visiting Faculty

Ar.Kshama Rane

Assistant Professor

ISHA DESAI

Visiting Faculty

Khushbu Soni

Visiting Faculty

MANOJ VISHWAKARMA

Visiting Faculty

Ar. Jignesh Panchal

Assistant Professor

Tushar Pariya

Visiting Faculty

Russell Fernandes

Assistant Professor

Scroll to Top

Urvashi Purohit

Assistant Professor
Master of Architecture (Urban Design)
 
She completed both her B.Arch (First Class, Honours) and M.Arch in Urban Design (CGPI 7.9), from Rizvi College of Architecture (University of Mumbai). She holds She is a certified IGBC Accredited Professional and IGBC Accredited Faculty. She has also done a certificate course in Project Management from CEPT University and is currently pursuing her M.A.in Anthropology.
 
She has over 16 years of industry experience, during which, she has worked in various reputed design firms and real-estate developers. She has professional experience in planning, designing, detailing, and coordinating with multi-disciplinary teams in Residential, Commercial & Healthcare projects. Her ability to track project performance and monitor team dynamics, has helped her lead projects of varied scales & complexity.
 
As an academician, through four and a half years, her pedagogical approach reiterates integrating a variety of teaching methods to communicate holistic processes of design that combine understanding of planning, technology, socio-cultural, economic, and ecological aspects of the interdependence between habitation, natural and built environment and the global impacts of architecture. She is involved in numerous Academic, Co-curricular & Student activities.

Ar. Varsha Swar

Assistant Professor
 
After graduating in the year 2002, from Academy of Architecture, Ar. Varsha Swar decided to take her thesis on “Fire temples in Mumbai” to the next level under the guidance of eminent Conservation Architect Ar. Pankaj Joshi and team by documenting all the fire temples in Mumbai; which in the year 2002 were awarded Heritage grade and notified by the MMRDA. The work did not end there but the same was carried forth for documenting the remotest and the smallest fire temples right up till Ahmedabad. After this valuable experience; she continued her practice in Mumbai and worked with various firms including NPAPL, Evolution Architectural Design Studio, Design Ideas, Sarayan Turnkey Solutions etc. and worked on and successfully completed a variety of high-end residential, commercial projects which ranged from Banks, government offices taken to a corporate look and feel, at project management level for educational institute for IGIDR etc. After an experience of over 15 years, which have contributed to a broader perspective and vision.

ATUL R. LOHAR

VISITING FACULTY
Diploma in Interior Designing from L.S. Raheja School of Architecture College in 2007 (First Class) (M.S.B.T. Board)
 
*Associate Designer SNS ARCHITECTS Design Consultant *Work for the OTIL (On Time International Logistics Pvt.Ltd.) *Worked on all stages of the design process and execution for Residential projects.

Ar. DEEPTI BADKAR CHOGLE

VISITING FACULTY
B.ARCH, M.ARCH
 
2 years in academics and 17 years of professional experience in interiors and architecture.

Darshan Arun Pithva

VISITING FACULTY
Diploma Course in Interior Designing From L.S Raheja School of Architecture.
 
Ranked 7th All Over India in AutoCAD Examination held by CADD CENTRE. Professional Experience: – · Specialization In CAD & 3D Visualization. · Working as an INTERIOR DESIGNER & CAD TRAINER for more than 10 years now.

Ar. Aditi Thakar

Visiting Faculty
Bachelor Of Architecture
 
She is B.Arch from Mumbai University with around 17-18 working years of experience with developers like Raheja. She has wide experience as a finishing architect for high-rise and commercial projects for finishing and interiors including showflats, clubhouses and swimming pools, lift lobbies, and common areas and amenities for podium levels.

Ar.Kshama Rane

Assistant Professor
B.Arch
 
Ar. Kshama Rane is a graduate from Academy of architecture in 2000 and founder of K Design studio alongside works on associate consultancy project basis with Kalayojan architects since 2014. She has been a visiting faculty for architectural design, construction, graphics & services in Aditya college of architecture, Borivali west from December 2016 and teaching in IES college of architecture since august 2014. Work Experience includes architectural and interior planning of institutional campus planning, retail malls, residential tower & campus, hospital medical architecture, hospitality and commercial projects.

Khushbu Soni

Visiting Faculty
Masters in Urban Design

 

Working since 2010. Currently, Principal Architect at Design firm – Studio Two ‘O’. Industry experience include residential, retail and commercial design. Academic experience of a decade.

Ar. Jignesh Panchal

Assistant Professor
G.D. Arch.
 
Brief Introduction about your academic and professional experience Having completed GD. Arch from Rachna Sansad’s Academy of Architecture in 1998, he has over 24 years of experience in field of Architecture & Interiors. Known for uncanny attention to detail and delivering a high standard of finish and quality to every project. Principal Architect of M/s. JP&A – Design Studio established since 2014 & being driving force and inspiration behind the company. His approach towards design has always been a simple one – Always let the function of a space determine its form – “Form Follows Function”. He has always looked at design from the inside out and belief in simple lines, attention to detail and has rendered a signature style that is original and well recognized all over. He strongly believes in understanding clients brief as it is a baseline for any project. Any Designs as far as possible should be simplistic, cheerful, and most important… user friendly! He has been teaching since 2015, Specialized in technical subjects and DD.

Russell Fernandes

Assistant Professor
Dip. in interior designing, PGDM. in Business Management
 

Having an experience of more than 15 years in interior designing, he has designed interiors of educational institutions, residences, corporates, and hospitality industries.

He has worked on project as small as 200 sq. ft (dispensary clinic) to as big as 2 acres (institutional).

He has successfully executed vast number of interior projects in Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Chennai, Bangalore, Mysore, Belgaum, Gulbarga, in India and he also has gained international experience of interior designing for structures constructed in cities like Nairobi, Mombasa in Kenya, Dar es salaam in Tanzania.