Ratish Nanda
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1973|08|23}}{{cite web | title = 'We want freedom to innovate and experiment'|publisher=India Today | url = http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/'We+want+freedom+to+innovate+and+experiment'/1/82527.html |date= 4 February 2010|accessdate = 26 November 2013 }}
| birth_place = Delhi, India
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| occupation = conservation architect,
Projects Director Aga Khan Trust for Culture, India
| known_for = Conservation of Humayun's Tomb (1999–2013)
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Ratish Nanda (born 23 August 1973) is a noted Indian conservation architect, who is the Projects Director of Aga Khan Trust for Culture, India.{{cite web | title = Ratish Nanda, Director of Aga Khan Trust for Culture, India|publisher= Aga Khan Foundation Canada| url = http://www.akfc.ca/events/past-events/225-ratish-nanda-director-of-aga-khan-trust-for-culture-india.html#| accessdate = 25 November 2013}}
He presently heads a mult-disciplinary team implementing the Nizamuddin Urban Renewal Initiative in Delhi – a project with distinct conservation, environmental development and socio-development components and the conservation initiative in the Quli Qutb Shah Heritage Park in Hyderabad.
He headed the team which overlooked the garden restoration work at Humayun's Tomb in Delhi completed in March 2003. This was also first privately funded restoration of a World Heritage Site in India, undertaken by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), under the National Culture Fund.
In 2007, Nanda was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship.{{cite web| title =Indian Fellow Visited By U.S. President Obama|publisher= Eisenhower Fellowships| url = http://www.efworld.org/news/newsarchive/10/1210.php|date=28 December 2010|accessdate = 25 November 2013}}
Early life and background
Nanda was born and brought up in Delhi, where he studied at Modern School and subsequently did his BA from the TVB School of Habitat Studies, Delhi. His thesis for the course was on the renewal of historic urban villages in Delhi, and drew upon the work of Patrick Geddes (1854–1932), Scottish architect and urban planner who also spent time in India. This earned Nanda, a Gold Medal at the institution in 1995.
{{cite web| title = Another string to his bow |publisher= The Herald, Scotland| url = http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/another-string-to-his-bow-1.348670|date= 30 March 1998| accessdate = 26 November 2013}} This was followed by MA in Conservation Studies from University of York in 1998.{{cite web | title = Lunch with BS: Ratish Nanda |publisher= Business Standard| url = http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/lunch-with-bs-ratish-nanda-111100400015_1.html |date=4 October 2011| accessdate = 25 November 2013}}{{cite web | title = Biography for Ratish Nanda | url = http://archnet.org/shared/biography-one.jsp?user_id=3818&public_p=0 | publisher = ArchNet.org | accessdate = 25 November 2013 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20131203005630/http://archnet.org/shared/biography-one.jsp?user_id=3818&public_p=0 | archivedate = 3 December 2013 | df = dmy-all }}
Ratish Nanda married journalist Mandira Nayar, granddaughter of Kuldip Nayar, in 2004
Career
He started his career in 1992, working as a research assistant to Shakeel Hossain for his research on Ritual Architecture and Urbanity of Muharram in India. From 1995 onwards he compiled the list of heritage buildings of Delhi published by INTACH in two volumes titled Delhi, the Built Heritage. The volumes were released by the Prime Minister of India.
He completed an MA is Historic Building Conservation from the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies at the University of York in 1998 following which he worked with Edinburgh architect Benjamin Tindall, and then with Historic Scotland, an agency of the Scottish Government based in Edinburgh.{{cite web| title = Ideas man is a hard act to follow |publisher= The Herald, Scotland | url = http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/ideas-man-is-a-hard-act-to-follow-1.294641|date=27 April 1999| accessdate = 26 November 2013}} After working there for a year, he returned to India and joined Aga Khan Trust for Culture in 1999. With AKTC, he started with restoration of the gardens around the 16th-century Humayun's Tomb of Mughal Emperor, Humayun, (1999–2003) followed by restoration work at Bagh-e Babur, the garden around the tomb of Babur, the 15th-century founder of Mughal Empire in Kabul, Afghanistan (2003–06).
In 2007, the restoration work at Humayun's Tomb was also started, partly funded by Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, in partnership with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). Along with it an Urban Renewal project of surrounding 300 acres area was also started, this included Nizamuddin Basti and Chausath Khamba complex{{cite web | title = 'Humayun's Tomb has been restored the Indian way'|publisher=Indian Express | url = http://www.mid-day.com/news/2013/sep/290913-humayuns-tomb-has-been-restored-the-indian-way.htm |date=29 September 2013| accessdate = 25 November 2013}}{{cite web| title = Germany for conservation of Chausath Khambha in Nizamuddin|publisher=German Missions in India| url = http://www.india.diplo.de/Vertretung/indien/en/__pr/Embassy__Events/Chausath-Khamba.html| accessdate = 26 November 2013}} which included Mazar-e-Ghalib, the tomb complex of poet Mirza Ghalib in Nizamuddin Basti.{{cite web | title = Ghalib's mazar to come alive again with mushairas – Indian Express | url = http://www.indianexpress.com/news/ghalibs-mazar-to-come-alive-again-with-mushairas/574782/0 |date=3 February 2010| accessdate = 26 November 2013 }}
Ongoing projects with AKTC include the landscaping of Sunder Nursery area spread over a 40-hectare (100-acre), close to Humayun's Tomb,{{cite web | title = Ratish Nanda plans on creating huge new park in Delhi |publisher=CNN-IBN| url = http://ibnlive.in.com/news/ratish-nanda-plans-on-creating-huge-new-park-in-delhi/417281-3-244.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130826073027/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/ratish-nanda-plans-on-creating-huge-new-park-in-delhi/417281-3-244.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 26 August 2013 |date=26 August 2013|accessdate = 25 November 2013 }} and 16th-century Qutb Shahi Tombs near Golkonda Fort in Hyderabad, India.{{cite web | title = What lies under the Qutb Shahi tombs? |publisher= The New Indian Express| url = http://newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/What-lies-under-the-Qutb-Shahi-tombs/2013/10/28/article1858926.ece| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131030074657/http://newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/What-lies-under-the-Qutb-Shahi-tombs/2013/10/28/article1858926.ece| url-status = dead| archive-date = 30 October 2013|date=28 October 2013| accessdate = 26 November 2013}}
In 2011, he co-authored, Delhi: Red Fort to Raisina published by Roli Books, a book about over 600 years of architectural heritage of Delhi, with Salman Khurshid and Malvika Singh.{{cite web | title = City of stories|publisher=The Telegraph | url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111216/jsp/opinion/story_14880021.jsp#.UpQ8EdJQE2Q| archive-url = https://archive.today/20131126062708/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111216/jsp/opinion/story_14880021.jsp%23.UpQ8EdJQE2Q| url-status = dead| archive-date = 26 November 2013|date=16 December 2011| accessdate = 26 November 2013}}
He has been associated with INTACH, Delhi Chapter and member of the Delhi Urban Arts Commission (DUAC) (2008–11). He was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship in 2007.{{cite web | title = Indian Fellow to Present Lecture in Washington D.C.|publisher=Eisenhower Fellowships| url = http://www.efworld.org/news/newsarchive/10/0410.php | accessdate = 26 November 2013}}
Bibliography
- {{cite book|author1=Narayani Gupta|author2=O. P. Jain|author3=Ratish Nanda|title=Delhi, the built heritage: a listing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oaHpAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=INTACH, Delhi Chapter|isbn=978-81-900281-9-6}}
- {{cite book|author1=Ingval Maxwell|author2=Ratish Nanda|author3=Dennis Urquhart|title=Conservation of Historic Graveyards|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T02GGQAACAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Historic Scotland|isbn=978-1-900168-74-8}}
- {{cite book|author1=Ratish Nanda|title=The Central Axis Reconstruction: Baghe Babur, Kabul, Afghanistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4k3UXwAACAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Aga Khan Trust for Culture}}
- {{cite book|author1=Salman Khurshid |author2=Ratish Nanda |author3=Malvika Singh |title=Delhi: Red Fort to Raisina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vhZRtwAACAAJ|year=2012|publisher=Roli Books|isbn=978-81-7436-861-4}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.akdn.org/aktc.asp Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), website]
- [https://archive.today/20131125122529/http://www.nizamuddinrenewal.org/humayuntomb/start.html Nizamuddin Renewal, website]
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Category:20th-century Indian architects
Category:Alumni of the University of York
Category:Conservation architects