17 : 30 | Ahmedabad
Join us for the third session of the presentation series ‘Design Futures’ by Prof. Percy Adil Pithawala on Saturday, 15 July 2023 at 5.30 pm.
Design Futures is an outreach platform, an initiative undertaken by The Red Studio to broaden horizons and open up fresh discourses amongst academia, students, and professionals through a multi-disciplinary learning exposure from allied fields of Design.
In this session, Prof. Percy will talk about the Land Art. The rise of Land Art in 1960s and 70s challenged established notion for perceiving an artwork by strategically locating these monumental installations within natural landscapes. These installations were immensely powerful in raising awareness about critical issues related to nature and the environment.
Prof. Percy Adil Pithawala is an architect, academic, and artist with over 30 years in academia and profession. He is a Gold medalist from M.S. University, Baroda after which he subsequently pursued a Master’s in Urban Design from Pratt Institute, New York with excellence honours. He founded The Red Studio in Baroda in 2018 with an objective to further the discourse in Design education, academia, and practice. Thru the Red Studio Prof. Pithawala conducts several design workshops on Art and Architecture, Histories and theories at institutes all over the country.