Pranab Kishore Das

P.K. Das is popularly known as an Architect–Activist. His priority has been to establish a very close relation between architecture and people by involving them in a participatory planning process, while critically responding to the cry for sustainable ecology. His wide spectrum of work includes organizing slum dwellers for better living and evolving affordable housing models, engaging in policy framework for public housing, reclaiming public spaces including developing the waterfronts, protection and conservation of natural areas, re-envisioning the city of Mumbai, along with an architectural practice involving urban planning, urban design, architecture and interior design assignments across India. He has authored several books & publications and has delivered talks and lectures across the world. His work in the development of Mumbai’s coastline and his slum rehabilitation projects has won him several national and international awards including the first Urban Age Award instituted by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank conferred to the Mumbai Waterfronts Centre of which Das is the Chairperson. He has also been conferred with the prestigious first International ‘Jane Jacobs Medal- 2016’.