Author Info | - Sarbjit Bahga (b1957) is a Chandigarh-based architect, author, photo artist, and archivist. He is the Principal Architect of Bahga Design Studio LLP. Earlier, Bahga worked in the Department of Architecture, Punjab, Punjab Health Systems Corporation, and Punjab Mandi Board in various positions.
He has more than 43 years of practical experience designing various types of buildings, complexes, and large campuses. His completed works include an eclectic range of administrative, recreational, educational, medical, residential, commercial, and agricultural buildings. A monograph on his selected works titled “MODERN REGIONALISM: The Architecture of Sarbjit Bahga” has been published.
Bahga is also a keen researcher and a prolific architectural writer. He has 12 books to his credit, which include Modern Architecture in India, New Indian Homes, Le Corbusier, and Pierre Jeanneret: The Indian Architecture, Trees in Urban Habitat, Landscaping Human Habitat, New Indian Architecture -1947-2020, and Hand-Drawn Perspectives and Sketches. Bahga’s contribution to architecture has been largely recognized. He is a three-time recipient of the World Architecture Community Awards. His name has been featured in the Guinness Book of World Records for designing the "longest covered concrete corridor" in Vidya Sagar Institute of Mental Health, Amritsar.
Arun Mirchandani (b1957) is a New Delhi-based Civil Engineer and Administrator by profession and Archivist by passion. He graduated from IIT-Delhi in 1979 and worked in PEC Limited - a company engaged in the international trade of projects, equipment, and commodities. He retired from this company as Chairman-cum-Managing Director. Mirchandani is passionate about preserving old documents and photographs of historical importance. Several photographs from his archival records have been published in leading newspapers, journals, and books. Being born in Chandigarh, he has a special love for the city. His father, (late) ID Mirchandani was an eminent Civil Engineer who had taught at Punjab Engineering College in Lahore and Chandigarh and worked on the construction of Chandigarh, IIT-Delhi, and HAU Hissar. Later he retired as Chief Engineer, PWD Himachal Pradesh and UNICEF, Ethiopia. ID Mirchandani was an avid photographer and art collector. His son Arun Mirchandani has, thus, inherited a rich collection of photographs and documents, which he is maintaining exceptionally well as a hobby.
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