Bhavi Vora
About
Bhavi Vora, who recently completed an MA in History of Design at the Royal College of Art, has her roots in practising architecture from her Bachelor’s degree. Exploring narrativity in architecture and its interdisciplinary convergences through her bachelor’s thesis, she unlearned the familiar concepts of the discipline, and began to understand architecture as a pool of ideas that often push against the boundaries of said methods, and extend beyond a physical sphere of the built environment into a liminal and transitory space of communication of ideologies.
Exploring the Anti-Ugly Action group sprouting from the RCA in 1958 who took their architectural criticism to the streets, her dissertation touches upon themes of shifting and pulsating notions of power, dominance and revolution that were thick in the post-war years. Situating such little disruptions in a wider socio-cultural space, she tries to understand the impact of lesser-known narratives in the reflexive dynamic between the public, an architect, and the architecture around us.
Design History Society Conference Student Member Speaker Bursary recipient 2024
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