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Romi Khosla to give lecture at Bodrum Architecture Library on March 6

Turkey Architecture News - Mar 02, 2020 - 10:21   9480 views

Romi Khosla to give lecture at Bodrum Architecture Library on March 6

Indian architect Romi Khosla, the winner of the Turgut Cansever Grand Prix, will give a lecture on Friday, March 6, 2020 at the Bodrum Architecture Library in Bodrum, a port city in Muğla Province, Turkey.

The Bodrum Architecture Library includes over 10,000 books and 20,000 documents in the fields of architecture, history, art, urbanism, archeology, engineering - founded by WAC's Founder and President Prof. Suha Ozkan, Hon F AIA. The library also hosts a series of events, workshops and lectures directed by Suha Ozkan. 

Khosla's lecture is titled "The Three Doors Leading To Crazy Wisdom" and starts at 19:00 at the library. Presentation will be in English.

Architect Romi Khosla graduated from Cambridge University with an economist degree and worked as an accountant at Price Waterhouse in London and studied architecture at AA (Architectural Association). Between 1973-2000, he directed a large design workshop in Delhi, which undertook extensive constructions in both rural and urban areas of India. 

In 2001, he revised his Office for a small number of comprehensive and relatively smaller and selective projects in India and other countries, especially with the architectural interventions for the resolution of social conflicts. As chief advisor to the United Nations (UN), he worked on solutions for the rehabilitation and rehabilitation of conflict areas in large urban areas in Palestine, Bulgaria, Romania, Kosovo, Cyprus and Montenegro. He still continues to produce projects and write deeply on the need for a new generation of sustainable urban design in India. He served as Master Jury Member at Aga Khan Architecture Awards.

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