Ar. Ravi Mahajan and Ar. Priya Tyagi along with two students of 4^th year named as Aeshwarya Tyagi and Daleep Kumar of MM School of Architecture, Sadopur participated in an International Conference on THEORY OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: GLOBAL PRACTICES AMID LOCAL MILIEU held from 14^th to16^th April’2017 organized by Department of Architecture and Landscape Design, SMVDU, Katra.

This conference aimed to address the issue of “Increasing skylines of Urban infra-structure of most of the leading cities of the world” so that judicious ways may be sought such that Global technology/practices may be adopted for obvious benefits but still the placelessness may not be there in prevailing context of climate in relation with built form from across the Globe.

During the Conference, many renowned and eminent architects like Ar. Shirish Beri, Ar. Yatin Pandya, Ar. Kalhan Mattoo, Dr. Ken Yeang, Prof. R Vasavada, Dr. Ram Sateesh, Mr. Vinod Malhotra, Ar. J.K. Gupta Etc. from India and abroad gave the lectures on different topics.

Also there were two workshops on Hill and Vernacular Architecture by Ar. Kailash Rao, Ar. Nilanjan Bhowal and Ar. Debasish Borah. Half day tour to Jammu city to its heritage buildings like Hari Niwas, Mubarak Mandi Etc was also done during the conference.