Prem Chandavarkar (private)
Prem Chandavarkar is the managing partner of CnT Architects: an award-winning and widely published architectural practice based in Bengaluru, India.
He received his training from School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi (B.Arch. 1978), and went on to do a research-based master’s degree in architecture from the University of Oregon, USA (M.Arch. 1982), where he wrote a thesis on the linguistic analogy in architectural theory.
He is a former Executive Director of Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design & Technology in Bengaluru and is an academic advisor and guest faculty at Indian and international colleges of architecture.  In 2016, he was the curator of the centenary national convention of the Indian Institute of Architects on the theme “Imagining the Indian City”.
Besides his design practice at CnT, he writes, lectures and blogs on architecture, urbanism, philosophy, politics, education, environment, art, and cultural studies.