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Manit Rastogi is the Founder Partner of Morphogenesis (Company), one of India’s leading award-winning architecture and urban design practices. Founded in 1996, Morphogenesis has been ranked for the third time running among the World’s Top 100 Architectural Firms by Building Design Magazine, UK in WA100, 2014. Manit is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Architects and the Royal Society of Arts, UK. Manit completed his Bachelor of Architecture (1991) from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, after which he went to the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, where he pursued an additional Bachelor's degree and Masters in Environment & Energy Studies, graduating with Distinction. He also taught there and at CHORA, Institute of Architecture and Urbanism, London. Manit has been a visiting Research Fellow at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and visiting faculty at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. Manit has been a director of Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Gurgaon (2009–2011). Additionally, he is affiliated with a number of architecture and architecture education organizations. Among others, he is or has been an advisor to the Delhi Urban Arts Commission; a member of the Indian Green Building Council; a member of Scientific Panel: SB13 Singapore-Realizing Sustainability in the Tropics; a Special Invitee of the Strategic Action Group, Delhi Development Authority; and a member of the tourism Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi. == Philosophy and vision== After completing his Masters, Manit returned to India with a single-minded vision; that of defining Brand India for architecture. This stemmed from his observation of an almost complete absence of discourse globally, on Contemporary India Architecture. With buildings contributing to 40% of carbon emissions, a critical position needs to be established, one that is embedded intrinsically in contemporary Indian architecture. It must deal with all issues unique to our economics, sociology, history, diversity and our Indianness. While the rest of the world is trying to go green, we are fortunate to have a vast, rich tradition of building green. Manit believes that today we have glorious opportunity – to take what we had learnt over centuries and from the mistakes of the architecture of excess of the West, and leap frog into an architecture that is sustainable - not only environmentally, but financially, socially, culturally and technologically - an architecture that is global yet local. Manit's belief in sustainability shapes all Morphogenesis' projects. With a local, socio-cultural response to design, the results are more often than not, passive solutions, which help to reduce energy and water dependence, with minimum reliance on mechanical means. He has successfully created exemplars that consume 70% lesser energy than established green rating benchmarks, without incurring additional cost. Optimization of all resources is a pre-requisite to architecture today. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Manit Rastogi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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