Vijay Narnapatti
Vijay Sambasivam Narnapatti is an architect, urbanist and design educator based in Bangalore. He founded mayaPRAXIS design+architecture with partner Dimple Mittal in 2001. mayaPRAXIS has won reward and international recognition for its architectural design work. In 2012, mayaPRAXIS was featured as one of the Practices of Consequence by the Indian Architect and Builder and one of the Emerging Practices of India by Arch Daily. Vijay is a Professor in the School of Architecture Christ, Bengaluru and a Founding Faculty of the school. He has lectured around the country in various events, been an organiser, panellist or moderator in some. He is also part of research and interest groups that look into aspects of urbanism in the context of Bangalore. He has also penned a few articles and papers. Vijay received his Bachelors degree in Architecture from School of Planning and Architecture New Delhi in 1992 and a Master of Science in History and Theory of architecture from the School of Design Architecture Art and Planning at the University of Cincinnatti [USA] in 1997.