Architecture in an expanded field – Rupali Gupte

About: Rupali Gupte, is an architect and urbanist based in Mumbai. She is currently Professor at the School of Environment and Architecture which she co-founded with other colleagues and Director of SEA Studio a research wing on the school. She is also a partner at BARD studio, co-founder of the Urban research collective CRIT and co-founder of Society for Environment and Architecture. Her work crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms – writings, drawings, mixed-media works, story-telling, teaching, conversations, walks, spatial interventions and curation. Her current focus is on South Asian Architecture and Urbanism with a special interest in tactical spatial practices, housing and urban form. Some of her recent works include: Multifarious Nows, a multimedia map of the Mumbai Mill lands shown at the exhibition Rest of Now, curated by the Raqs Media Collective at Bolzano, Italy, Pothole City shown at Khoj, Delhi; Architectural Fictions an exhibition of drawings speculating the futures of Mumbai Chawls shown at Jugaad Urbanism, New York; Being Nicely Messy: research on projecting future mobility of Mumbai supported by the Audi Urban Futures Initiative, shown at Istanbul, When is Space? Conversations in Contemporary Architecture, an exhibition on space involving artists and architects, shown at the Jawahar Kala Kendra. Rupali Gupte has received her Master of Architecture, from Cornell University with a Major in Urban Design and Minor in Architectural Theory and Criticism and completed her Bachelor of Architecture from Mumbai University.