Participants

Born 1974, Mussoorie (India).
Subhash Mukerjee, architect, studied in Torino, Oslo, Boston, Hong Kong, and partecipated to design workshops in France, Spain, Greece and Russia.
His projects, most of which are dealing with dense and delicate existing environments, have been published on international magazines (“Abitare”, “de Architect”, “Domus”, “Dwell”), selected for exhibitions (9. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura – La Biennale di Venezia, 2004; Annali dell'Architettura e delle Città, Napoli 2007), presented in lectures (Konkuk University, Seoul; CCA, Moscow).
He has been holding the “Architectural design” course in Torino for the international exchange program USAC since 2001 and is also working for the Politecnico di Torino.
He wrote several articles and essays on architecture for Italian and international magazines and was a tutor of the group of students that won the Special Prize of the Jury at the 10. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura – La Biennale di Venezia (2006), with a project on the area of Back Bay in Mumbai.
In 2006 he founded a new design office, MARC, with Michele Bonino. MARC's projects have been published on “Abitare”, “A10 – New European Architecture”, “Casabella”, “Parametro”. In 2008 MARC has been invited to present its work at Tsinghua University, Beijing and at Universitatea de Vest, Timisoara (Romania).

Tomà Berlanda / Torino, Italy

Tomà Berlanda was born in Venice in 1976. After studies and internships in different European countries, he graduated at the Accademia di Architetttura in Mendrisio (2002). He has been project architect for firms in Switzerland and Italy. Since 2005 he has run his independent practice, before becoming founding partner of lat45N architects, based in Bordeaux. He has been first year design tutor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (2004-2006), and is now urban design tutor in Mendrisio (2007-2008). Meanwhile he is working on his PhD in architecture and building design at the Politecnico di Torino (2006-2009) with a research that investigates the relationship between architecture and landscape, a ‘topographical lexicon’. He has contributed several papers on architecture and is a member of the editorial staff of rivista tecnica, Lugano.
His project activity is mainly linked to interventions on existing buildings, beyond restoration, to give new life to old structures and spaces, the “places” of a reflection which engages the nodal points of contemporary design: the relationship with time and history, authenticity and the intervention on the site, built fabric and conservation of materials and memory.

Marco Boella / Torino, Italy

Marco is a post-graduate architecture student based in Torino, Italy. Since 2002 freelance action sport photographer, he has been senior photographer and photo editor of an Italian winter action sport magazine.
In 2006 he participated to the international design workshop "Learning from cities" organized by the Venice Biennale (winning group), working on the Backbay area - Mumbai, where he had the opportunity to learn the complexity, the beauty and the problems of this city. He just graduated in Architecture (master degree) with honor mention at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, Feb 2008. He is deeply interested in energy conservation and sustainability in buildings, low-tech construction and interaction between users and buildings. UrbanTyphoon will be a chance to see directly what we worked on during the Biennale workshop and to experience and learn things which are so far away from my European background.

Dhaval Malesha / Mumbai, India

I m a final yr student and presently working with Ar. Charles Correa. The workshop presents a large scope of interaction and an opportunity to have a word with the most active people that to on a live contextual base and the most controversial site : Dharavi

Manuela Martorelli / Torino, Italy

Manuela Martorelli is born in 1980 in Italy. She is graduand at the I Faculty of Architecture (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) with the thesis: "Simply Dutch. A profile of architectural practice in the generation of the Second Modernity in Netherlands". In 2000 she was selected for the 5th Festival for Architecture in Video in Florence with a short video about Urban Planning and Digital Media. In 2003 Martorelli received a special mention for the Tate in Space Architecture Competition with a project of a museum in the space. Between 2004 and 2005 she was selected to participate at the Master course (special program) in Urban design on Karachi (Pakistan), run by prof. Bruno De Meulder and prof. Michiel Dehaene. In 2006 she was one of the student of the Turin team to receive the Special Award for schools of architecture (Cities. Architecture and Society) on the Venice Biennale of Architecture, for the project on Mumbai “Cutting edge Bombay”. In 2007 Martorelli published «OMA at "the party"», in Architecture Bulletin n. 3, NAi Publisher. Manuela Martorelli is a free-lance journalist for the Italian magazine on Architecture, Industrial Design and Urban Planning, “Giornale dell’Architettura”, since 2004. She lives in Rotterdam.

Shaira Sequeria Shetty / Mumbai, India

Sanjay Pratap Singh / Mumbai, India

This is my first encounter with Mumbai. Lot of things heard about Dharavi and would like to know it by participating n the workshop.