SPACES Sept issue 2017

Volume 13 N O. 03 | AUGUST
Contributors
CEO
Ashesh Rajbansh
Editor-in-Chief
Ar. Sarosh Pradhan
Director- Products and Materials
Ar. Pravita Shrestha
Contributing Art Editor
Madan Chitrakar
Kasthamandap Art Studio
Junior Editor
Shreya Amatya
Sristi Pradhan
Pratap Jung Khadka
Advisor
Ar. Pawan Kumar Shrestha
Subscription and Administrative Officer
Riki Shrestha
Contributing Editor
President - Society of Nepalese Architects
Ar. Jinisha Jain (Delhi)
Ar. Chetan Raj Shrestha (Sikkim)
Barun Roy (Darjeeling Hills)
Photographers
Pradip Ratna Tuladhar
Intl. Correspondent
Bansri Panday
Samir Dahal
Intern
Soyana Nyachhon
Director- Operation & Public Relation
Anu Rajbansh
SR. Business Development Officer
Debbie Rana Dangol
Marketing Officer
Ruby Shrestha
Legal Advisor
Yogendra Bhattarai
Financial Advisor
Kiran Rajbhandary
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Sangeeta Singh
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Kirti Kusum Joshi
Asha Dangol
Shweta Shakya
Chhavi Vashist
Shweta Shakya is 4th year Architecture student in Khwopa Engineering College.
Travels, takes photographs and writes to keep her sanity.
Rajina Shrestha
Maureen Drdak
Shreesha Nankhwa is an aspiring environmentalist with a penchant for writing. She is interested in
sustainable living, alternative energy and creating a better future for the planet. Her works have been
published in a number of magazines and publications in Nepal. She currently writes and edits blogs for
IT companies while dreaming of trekking across the Himalayas.
Kirti K. Joshi received Ph.D. in urban and regional planning from Tohoku University, Japan in 2007, and
has been a Fulbright postdoctoral scholar at Harvard University, USA, and a postdoctoral visiting scholar
at University of Indonesia. Besides urban research, his other interests include psychology and philosophy.
Sangeeta Singh is an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urban planning at the
Institute of Engineering and has been teaching there since almost 20 years. She holds a master’s degree in
infrastructure planning from the University of Stuttgart, Germany and is currently undertaking PhD research
at the department where she teaches. She is also a practicing engineer/ planner and has a keen interest
in research. Her research interest includes urban ecological planning, sustainable development, eco cities,
housing among others and she has published her research articles in national and internal journals.
Asha Dangol is a contemporary Nepali visual artist. He is co-founder of the Kasthamandap Art Studio and
E-Arts Nepal. He holds Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from Tribhuvan University, and has been creating and
exhibiting his art since 1992. He has 10 solo art exhibitions to his credit. Dangol has participated in numerous
group shows in Nepal and his work has been exhibited in different countries outside Nepal. The artist
experiments with painting, mixed media, ceramics, installation, performance and video.
Chhavi Vashist is a Delhi- based Architect. She enjoys reading blogs & posts at blogger, WordPress, and
some social networking sites too, which inspires her to write blogs. In past she had worked for a website:
www.ebuild.in as an Interior Designing - content writer. She is also skilled in blogging, photography, travelling,
event coordination, drafting, rendering, art & craft and model making.
Rajina Shrestha is currently working full time for Marketing and Operations at Threadpaints Store, a moderated
online selling platform. She is a also co-founder at Women Leaders in Technology (WLiT) and Vice-President at
Women LEAD. She is a freelance writer and asks too many questions.
Maureen Drdak is a graduate of the both the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of the Arts in
Philadelphia. She travels widely in pursuit of her visions. Her research has taken her to Europe, North Africa, the
Middle East, India, Nepal and the Himalayas. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including the 2011-2012
U.S. Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for Nepal. Her work is found in numerous public, private, and university
collections within the US and abroad.
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