Rahul Mehrotra is principal of architecture firm Rahul Mehrotra Associates of Mumbai, India and is Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in Cambridge, Mass., USA.

Career

Rahul Mehrotra designed some prominent buildings like Hewlette Packard in Bangalore, restored the Chowmahalla Palace

Chowmahalla Palace

Chowmahalla Palace or Chowmahallat , was a palace belonging to the Nizams of Hyderabad state. It was the seat of the Asaf Jahi dynasty and was the official residence of the Nizam....

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He has been the force behind the Kala Ghoda

Kala Ghoda

Kala Ghoda is a precinct or district in South Mumbai, India.The name means Black Horse, a reference to a black stone statue of King Edward VII mounted on a horse. It was built by the Jewish businessman and philanthropist [Albert Abdullah David Sassoon]...

 area rejuvenation movement in Mumbai.

Other Activities

His co-authored Bombay: The Cities Within, which covers the city’s urban history from the 1600s to the present; Banganga: Sacred Tank; Public Places Bombay; Anchoring a City Line; and Bombay to Mumbai: Changing Perspectives. He has also co-authored Conserving an Image Center:The Fort Precinct in Bombay; based on this study and its recommendations, the historic Fort area was declared a conservation precinct in 1995.

Rahul Mehrotra moderated the workshop Informal Urbanism: between sanctioned and shadow orders at the Holcim Forum 2007 in Shanghai and is on the jury of the global Holcim Awards

Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction

The Holcim Awards is an international competition that seeks projects and visions in sustainable construction – irrespective of scale. A total of USD 2 million dollars in prize money is awarded in each three-year cycle....

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