Apurva Bose Dutta

Ar. Apurva Bose Dutta (www.apurvabose.com; B.Arch., India; Diploma in freelance journalism, UK) is an Indian author, award-winning architectural journalist, curator, editor, and educator with 17+ years of global collaborations with architecture-design publication houses, firms, organizations, and institutions. She works at the intersection of architectural design writing, thinking, curation, discourse, journalism, criticism, and communications. Apurva also offers training for architectural design writing and consults for academic and professional platforms.

Recognised for her pioneering work in architectural design writing in India and focussing on increasing the subject’s visibility, Apurva has been invited by the Australian and Finland Governments to represent the Indian delegation in International Media Visits of Architectural Writers in Melbourne and Helsinki.

Apurva debuted as an author with Architectural Voices of India brings, bringing19 iconic architects across 17 architectural practices from India, across generations, conversing on their career paths and journeys in architecture, and discussing the state of architecture as a subject and a profession. Her second book, Architectural Inheritance and Evolution in India brings together 10 architectural families and 44 architects from India to explore how architecture situates itself in the bonds within architectural families in India, a nation rejoicing in its rich family culture and ethos.