Rhea Shah

Rhea Shah is an architect and co-founder of a practice, The Drawing Room, that concerns itself with the pursuit of beauty through making contextually sensitive space, objects and artefacts. She has previously also worked in publication design and film curation and taught at KRVIA, Mumbai. She recently graduated with a Master in Landscape Architecture from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (MLA 1 AP, 2018). Her thesis research looks to forests to re-imagine landscape design through indigenous material practices – enabling intervention in time rather than geographical space

Companies

• Design and Product Development Aryan Paper Mills Pvt. Ltd. (2018)
• Research Assistant University of Pennsylvania (2019 — 2019)
• Research Associate Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2018 — 2018)
• Co-Founder The Drawing Room (2015 — 2017)
• Adjunct Professor / Studio Instructor Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture and Environmental Studies (2015 — 2016)
• Architect Samira Rathod | Design Associates (2014 — 2015)
• Art Director / Publication Designer Art India Magazine (2013 — 2015)
• Adjunct Professor / Studio Instructor Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture and Environmental Studies (2013 — 2014)
• Curatorial Assistant Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF 2014) (2013 — 2014)

Education

• MLA 1AP Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2016 — 2018)
• Bachelor of Architecture - BArch Kamla Raheja Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies (2008 — 2013)