Author Archives: Siddharth Menon

Didi Contractor Environmental Designers

From May 2011 to February 2014, I worked with Didi Contractor in the Kangra Valley of Himachal Pradesh. Didi was instrumental in shaping my ideas about environmental design and for molding me into a critical thinker of the built environment. She gave me a lot of time and energy for which I am forever indebted. […]

Auroville Earth Institute

I began my journey as a travelling architect-geographer with Satprem Maini at the Auroville Earth Institute, Tamil Nadu in December 2010 where I was an architectural intern. Below are some images from my time there.

B.Arch Thesis Fieldwork

In June 2010, I spent three weeks conducting semi-structured interviews, observations, and collecting textual and visual data about football/soccer stadiums in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, UAE for my BArch thesis. My sincere thanks to Dileep Menon who facilitated this visit and to all the Malayali, South Asian, and Arab stadium managers, groundmen, and security guards […]