Vikram Bhatt, McGill University
Architecture
Professor
Montreal, Quebec
vikram.bhatt@mcgill.ca
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(514) 398-6723
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Vikram Bhatt is a Professor of Architecture, McGill University, where he teaches courses in Housing. He also leads the Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCHG) of the McGill School of Architecture, an educational and research program with an international orientation that focuses attention on the human ...
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Vikram Bhatt is a Professor of Architecture, McGill University, where he teaches courses in Housing. He also leads the Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCHG) of the McGill School of Architecture, an educational and research program with an international orientation that focuses attention on the human settlement problems of poor nations. He is a member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
Bhatt is the author of Resorts of the Raj: Hill Stations of India and co-author of After the Masters: Contemporary Indian Architecture and The Urban Problematique. He has also contributed to standard references such as the Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture and Time Saver Standard for Urban Design. Reviewing Resorts of the Raj, the renowned economist and the former Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith wrote: “The British in India have now emerged as earlier did the Romans as great architects and committed builders. Nowhere was this more evident than in the hills to which they, and other, resorted in the summer. All this is wonderfully evident in this elegant book which I strongly recommend.” He has also co-edited research seminar proceedings, scientific journal issues and written many research papers and academic articles.
He has been involved in a number of pioneering research areas: a study of the informal housing sector in India (How the Other Half Builds) which was used to change formal low-cost housing norms; the introduction of market housing ideas in China (Housing a Billion; and the international seminar Rural Housing: The First Step to Market Housing that he organized in Chongqing, Sichuan, 1993).
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Bhatt is the author of Resorts of the Raj: Hill Stations of India and co-author of After the Masters: Contemporary Indian Architecture and The Urban Problematique. He has also contributed to standard references such as the Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture and Time Saver Standard for Urban Design. Reviewing Resorts of the Raj, the renowned economist and the former Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith wrote: “The British in India have now emerged as earlier did the Romans as great architects and committed builders. Nowhere was this more evident than in the hills to which they, and other, resorted in the summer. All this is wonderfully evident in this elegant book which I strongly recommend.” He has also co-edited research seminar proceedings, scientific journal issues and written many research papers and academic articles.
He has been involved in a number of pioneering research areas: a study of the informal housing sector in India (How the Other Half Builds) which was used to change formal low-cost housing norms; the introduction of market housing ideas in China (Housing a Billion; and the international seminar Rural Housing: The First Step to Market Housing that he organized in Chongqing, Sichuan, 1993).
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