People

The School was initiated by late Arvind Adarkar (architect and educationist) and its faculty members include Neera Adarkar (architect and urbanist), Ravindra Punde (urban planner, principal of Design Cell and ex-principal of Rachna Sansad’s Academy of Architecture); Prasad Shetty (urbanist, founder member of CRIT and partner, BARD Studio

Rupali Gupte (architect, urbanist, founder member of CRIT and partner at BARD Studio, Savita Punde (landscape architect, principal of Design Cell and visiting faculty at the School of Planning & Architecture New Delhi), Pankaj Joshi (conservation architect, partner, Pankaj Joshi Consultants and executive director of UDRI), Gauri Pandit Joshi   

(architect and partner at Pankaj Joshi Consultants), and Arun Kale (architect, partner at Adarkar Associates). Collectively, the SEA faculty members, advisory boards, councils and resource persons have immense experience in the fields of architecture and urbanism.