Monday, May 25, 2009

A. G. K. Menon | India

A. G. Krishna Menon is an architect, urban planner and conservation consultant who has been

practicing and teaching in Delhi since 1972. In 1990 he co-founded the TVB School of Habitat Studies and was its Director from 1994–2007, when it was inducted into the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, as the University School of Architecture and Planning. As a Conservation Consultant he has undertaken many pioneering urban conservation projects in India on behalf of The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), and authored several documents setting guidelines for conservation practice in India, including The Charter for the Conservation of Unprotected Architectural Heritage and Sites in India, 2004. While maintaining an active professional practice he remains a passionate interlocutor in mediating the development of Delhi as a Heritage City

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