Associate Professor, i/c HOD
Indala School of Architecture
Education Levels
M.Arch (General), IIT Roorkee
B. Arch from Thangal Kunju Musaliar (T.K.M) College of Engineering, Kollam (Kerala University.
Faculty Write Up
Deepthi Kuriachan is an Academician, Architect and an Interior Designer. She has an accumulated experience of 15 years as an Academician & Architect Consultant, in various colleges affiliated to Mumbai University and working on small scale to large scale projects in architecture and interiors which includes work experience with Architect Hafeez Contractor, Homelane, Ecorhythm, J&I Architects. She has a Masters Degree in Architecture from one of India’s premier institute – IIT Roorkee with the highest CGPA. Her areas of interest are mainly humanities, theory and design subjects and would like to expand her knowledge on the same. Other areas of interest are urban design and conservation. She had taken the role of ARC-ACTC officer during MASA admission process. She has also undertaken the role of facilitator, mentor, invigilator, paper setter, taken the lead faculty co-ordinator role in organizing and scheduling Student Inductions, Workshops & Guest Lecture Series. She had been part of preparing lesson plans, teaching documents and conducted & experimented various teaching pedagogies with innovative results from students across all semesters of B.Arch. undergrad programme. She has organized and led Convocation ceremony at institute level and headed Cultural Committee too.
List Of Conference Publications: National and International
1. Paper titled ‘Architectural Evaluation of Fort Area in Tripunithura’ presented and published in the conference proceedings of FABFEST 2012 organized by SRM University, Chennai.
2. Paper titled ‘Critical Appraisal of Analysis matrix of Revitalization strategies in Fort Area Tripunithura’ presented and published in the International conference proceedings of PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE 2018 organized by REVA University, Bangalore.
3. Paper titled ‘Reimagining Architectural Design Studio Pedagogy: Case Study’ presented and published in the International conference proceedings on ARCHITECTURE PEDAGOGY 2019(ICAP-2019) organized by Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
RESEARCH INTEREST
1. Design Thinking and theory of Design
2. History of Architecture
3. Urban Conservation and
4. Liberal arts
5. Sustainability
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
1. Disaster mitigation in housing in India, An agenda for future IIT, Roorkee, (HDMFA 2009, 2010)
2. Sustainable Design and National Green Rating for Building: GRIHA, Training programme, IIT, Roorkee, 2010.
3. Auroville township project presentation conducted by French architect Ar. Satprem Mani
4. Dharavi slum rehabilitation proposal and survey by Ar. Sharath Mahajan based on total station and GIS technique
5. Had attended 361-degree global level Conference in Nehru Center, Worli consecutively for 4 years.
6. Had attended various guest lectures at Institute level.