Manish Chakraborti
Manish Chakraborti is an architect, urban planner and Professor and Head of Architecture at Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata. A leading conservation architect whose works has been widely published in the national and international journals and media, he has authored various books on architecture and conservation, guided students thesis, a guest columnist, a visiting faculty to schools of architecture in India and abroad.
He has a graduation in Architecture from Jadavpur University, and Masters in Urban Planning from Indian Institute of Technology and Conservation from University of York in the UK. He has been a consultant to World Monuments Fund, National Museum of Denmark, Department of Culture, Government of Rajasthan, INTACH, and Archaeological Survey of India. He is the recipient of the Unesco Asia Pacific Heritage Award of Distinction 2016 for the Conservation of St Olav Church for bench marking conservation practice in India and the region.
Manish was a part of the team leaders for the preparation of the Unesco Nomination Dossier of Santiniketan which was inscribed as the 41st World Heritage Site of India on 17 September 2023
