Hrishikesh Ashtekar is an architect urban designer based in Pune India involved in Architectural practice, Research and teaching Architecture with an experience of more than 20 years in various domains including master planning, urban design, complex industrial buildings, airports and health care buildings with pan India organizations. He has been involved in the research & practice of housing including design & customization of many houses in the city of various forms from farmhouses, bungalows, villas, row houses & apartments. He is also advisor for redevelopment for various co -operative housing societies.
His varied research interests include growth in the area of urbanizing peripheries of large cities, understanding the complexity of layered urbanization through systems approach, study and documentation of local histories related to water systems and their cultural connections etc. He has presented at various conferences and has publications in national & international journals on the above topics.
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