Emerging Asian Cities
Robert Cowherd is Associate Professor of Architecture at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston. He has also taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rhode Island School of Design.
His research examines the reciprocal interplay between culture and space informed by specific conditions of everyday life in Southeast Asia and Latin America. He has pursued research in Indonesia and the Netherlands with grants from the Fulbright Grant Program, The Asian Cultural Council, and the Leon Hyzen Scholarship Trust. He was the Director of the Karaton Surakarta Project Office and the Local Coordinator of the 1995 Aga Khan Award for Architecture Awards Ceremon
Robert Cowherd
Aseem Inam
Aseem Inam is Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Practice at The New School, Associate Professor of Urbanism at Parsons The New School for Design, and Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A native of New Delhi, he studied architecture in Ahmedabad, and was the founding Architect-in-Charge of the Rural Habitat Development Program in Gujarat with the Aga Khan Development Network. He was co-recipient of a grant to design and teach a new interdisciplinary course at the University of Michigan entitled “Altered Encounters: Global Change and Asian Cities.” More recently, he was the lead consultant for designing a curriculum on urbanism for the Indian Institute of Human Settlements in Bengaluru, India.
Vinayak Bharne is the Director of Design at Moule & Polyzoides Architects & Urbanists in Los Angeles, and a joint adjunct faculty of urbanism at the Sol Price School of Public Policy and the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California (USC).
His professional work includes strategic plans, new towns, inner-city revitalizations, campus plans, resort villages and urban regulations for municipal and private clients in the United States, Canada, Panama, India, UAE, Kenya & Mauritius. His work has been published and exhibited internationally and recognized with numerous local and national awards from the American Planning Association and Congress for the New Urbanism.
Vinayak Bharne
Jeffrey Hou is Associate Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture and co-founder of the Center for Asian Urbanism at the University of Washington, Seattle. His work has focused on community design, design activism, and democracy and contemporary urbanism, with an emphasis on engaging marginalized social groups in the making of place.
In a career that spans across the Pacific, he has worked with indigenous tribes, farmers and fishermen in Taiwan, neighborhood residents in Japan, villagers in China, and inner-city immigrant youths and elders in North American cities, in projects ranging from conservation of wildlife habitats and rebuilding of indigenous villages to the design of urban open space and streetscapes.
Jeffrey Hou
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