Principal Architect Poonam Verma Mascarenahs is engaged in unraveling and reviving the inherent wisdom of traditional building technology as she believes they offer a generically green option. An architect and a Charles Wallace Fellow- post-graduate- from University of York, U.K. in Conservation of Buildings, she has over 25 years of pan- India work experience in building with alternative technol
ogies at Auroville; Conservation and development of 22 government-owned Listed Heritage buildings at Jaipur- Amber as consultant to Intach Jaipur and PANIKA. officiating as Heritage Management Expert and looking after heritage sites in Shimla and Mandi. Archinova has environ-sensitive architecture as its corner stone. The team has designed bioclimatic 50 unit energy efficient housing at Bangalore for Samskruti Builders which has received much appreciation. The firm has conserved couple of privately owned palaces in Rajasthan along with revival of several old houses at Goa. Her listing was published as the ‘Kerala Heritage Guide’ in 2001 and has researched and authored ‘Silent Sentinels, Traditional Architecture of Coorg’ for HECAR Foundation, Mumbai, published in 2005. She is the co-founding member and currently Honorary Secretary of Goa Heritage Action Group, and is member of Goa Bachao Abhiyan which is a citizen’s pressure group working towards an equitable planning. Internationally, she has contributed several articles and presented papers at conferences. Her work is guided by the inter-relationships of human consciousness and the environment.
