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Vinit Nikumbh holds a Master of Architecture from Cornell University, one of the world’s foremost schools of architecture and urbanism. His undergraduate studies in Mumbai earned him the Thesis of the Year Award from the National Council of Architecture India and the Ratan Tata Endowment — two of the highest honours available to an Indian architecture student. He has won seventeen design competitions over his career, and his professional work has been published internationally, including in Metropolis Magazine, the Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects, the Asian Paints Colour Quotient, and a Cornell University publication on Moscow.
Vinit has taught at the Rizvi College of Architecture, Rachna Sansad’s School of
Architecture, the Balwant Seth School of Architecture, and the Kamala Raheja School of Architecture in Mumbai. He was the first employee and part-time faculty at the School of Environment and Architecture (SEA), Mumbai. As a research fellow at the Urban Design Research Institute (UDRI), he authored a landmark study on walkability in Mumbai that directly informed the city’s pedestrian accessibility guidelines. He has exhibited work at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London; at KHOJ International Artists Residency, New Delhi; and at the American Institute of Architects Gallery, New York.