Student Awards & Recognitions

KANCHI JOBANPUTRA

FIRST PRIZE IN IDAC, MUMBAI
Group Project: Mandav
2025

YADNESH BANGAR

FIRST PRIZE IN IDAC, MUMBAI
Group Project: Mandav
2025

DEEP DESAI

WINNER, LENS: LEARNINGS, EXPLORATIONS AND NARRATIVES OF THE STUDIO
IES COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE कार्यशाळा, Type Studio, Studies and Design of Building Type in Historic Clusers, Semester 4 Design Project 2024

THIRD POSITION, BHARATIYA PARAMPARIK AWAS UTHAN AWARD
कार्यशाळा, Type Studio, Studies and Design of Building Type in Historic Clusers, Semester 4 Design Project 2024

SPECIAL COMMENDATION, INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION, ADITYA COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
Community and Institution, Semester 6 Design Project
2024-25

FIRST PRIZE IN RESONANCE 3.0

LSR Thesis Forum 4.0
2025-26

YAJAT BIYANI

THIRD POSITION, BHARATIYA PARAMPARIK AWAS UTHAN AWARD
कार्यशाळा, Type Studio, Studies and Design of Building Type in Historic Clusers, Semester 4 Design Project 2024

FIRST PRIZE IN RESONANCE 3.0

LSR Thesis Forum 4.0
2025-26

GRISHMA KARALE

SPECIAL COMMENDATION, INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION, ADITYA COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
Community and Institution, Semester 6 Design Project
2024-25

SHREYANK PANCHASARA

SILVER PRIZE, ASIAN CONTEST FOR ARCHITECTURAL ROOKIE'S AWARDS (ACARA) Community and Builtform, Semester 6 Design Project
2025

SHRAVANI WAGH

FIRST PRIZE IN IDAC, MUMBAI
Group Project: Mandav 
2025

ADITYA BHOITE

FIRST PRIZE, LENS: LEARNINGS, EXPLORATIONS AND NARRATIVES OF THE STUDIO
IES COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE Overlapse, Environmental Flows, Semester 5 Design Project
2022-23

VARUN SHETTY

FIRST PRIZE, NEW GEN POLICE STATION
NEHRU COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE Community and Institution, Semester 6 Design Project
2024-25

FIRST PRIZE, LENS: LEARNINGS, EXPLORATIONS AND NARRATIVES OF THE STUDIO
IES COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE Suburban Swell
2025

SECOND PLACE IN THE ONION PROJECT BY WCFA, MYSURU UNDER STUDENT CATEGORY
2026

NEHA MHADOLKAR

FIRST PRIZE, NEW GEN POLICE STATION
NEHRU COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE Community and Institution, Semester 6 Design Project
2024-25

THIRD PLACE IN THE ONION PROJECT BY WCFA, MYSURU UNDER STUDENT CATEGORY
2026

ADITYA MAHAJAN

WINNER, LENS: LEARNINGS, EXPLORATIONS AND NARRATIVES OF THE STUDIO
IES COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE Retrofitting through Widgets, Mass Inhabitations, Semester 7 Design Project 2024

PRATHAMESH DESHMUKH

FIRST PRIZE, LENS: LEARNINGS, EXPLORATIONS AND NARRATIVES OF THE STUDIO
IES COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE Overlapse, Environmental Flows, Semester 5 Design Project 2022-23

SHARVIN JANGLE

GOLD PRIZE (JOINT WINNER), ASIAN CONTEST FOR ARCHITECTURAL ROOKIE'S AWARDS (ACARA) Catalogue of Walls, Mass inhabitations, Semester 7 Design Project 2024

HONORARY MENTION FOR AAYDA AWARD BY NIPPON PAINT 2025-26

FIRST PRIZE FOR IIA ARCHITECTURAL THESIS OF THE YEAR
2025-26

FIRST PLACE IN THE ONION PROJECT BY WCFA, MYSURU UNDER PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY
2026

ZAHRA BAGASRAWALA

SECOND PRICE, OPEN IDEAS NATIONAL COMPETITION Dissertation Project: Ethnic solidarities and the culture of commons
2024-25

FIRST PRIZE IN RESONANCE 3.0

LSR Thesis Forum 4.0
2025-26

KHUSHBOO TEJWANI

IIA GOLD MEDAL

IIA Best outgoing student of the year
2025-26

KEERAT KAUR GILL

SILVER AWARD FOR AAYDA AWARD BY NIPPON PAINT
2025-26

ADITI KAWADE

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Project: (Be)Longing In Transit: Practices Of Place Making In Transit Camps Of Mumbai
2024

THIRD PLACE, GREEN DESIGN COMPETITION, IGBC ONLINE
Dissertation Project: (Be)Longing In Transit: Practices Of Place Making In Transit Camps Of Mumbai
2024-25

RUNNER UP IN RESONANCE 3.0

LSR Thesis Forum 4.0
2025-26

DARSHAN DEDHIA

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY (THESIS EXHIBITION)
Dissertation Project: Of Cosmic Mediations: A Study Of Changing Architecture Of Astronomical Observatories
2024-25

KRISHA KOTHARI

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY (THESIS EXHIBITION)
Dissertation Project: Everyday Religiosity And Housing In Suburban Mumbai
2024-25

ARTICLE PUBLISHED ON ARCHITECTURE LIVE
2025-26

NEHA DALVI

LSR COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE THESIS FORUM
Dissertation Project: Socio-Spatialities Of Infrastructures: Stories From Four Residential Types In Lower Parel, Mumbai
2024-25

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Project: Socio-Spatialities Of Infrastructures: Stories From Four Residential Types In Lower Parel, Mumbai
2024

HONOURABLE MENTION, CHARLES CORREA GOLD MEDAL, CHARLES CORREA FOUNDATION
Dissertation Project: Architectures of Incrementality
2024-25

SECOND PLACE IN THE ONION PROJECT BY WCFA, MYSURU UNDER PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY
2026

RIYA ISRANI 

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Project: Public Space in the Age of Social Media
2024

SAKSHI MAEEN

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Project: Inhabiting intertidal zone: grounds of occupancy and negotiation
2024

EXCELLENCE IN ARCHITECTURAL THESIS 2024, COUNCIL OF ARCHITECTURE
WEST ZONE WINNER, Dissertation Project: Inhabiting intertidal zone: grounds of occupancy and negotiation
2024

ISOLA THESIS OPEN DAY, INDIAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
Dissertation Project: Inhabiting intertidal zone: grounds of occupancy and negotiation
2024-25

TANUJA VARTAK

URBAN SCRIPTS ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION AWARD
Architecture Live
Essay Title: City surfaces tell time and stories
2023

AVANI ESSAY PRIZE, AVANI INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE
Essay Title: Looking Closely as the City Unfolds
2023

THESIS PUBLICATION, ATLANTIS MGAZINE
Dissertation Project:  Precarious inhabitations: ethnographic stories from kolsa bunder, Darukhana
2024-25

PRISHITA KULKARNI

THESIS PUBLICATION, ATLANTIS MGAZINE
Dissertation Project:  Kitchen stories: gendered practices and experiences of in-habiting the kitchen in diverse housing typologies in Mumbai
2024-25

PRANJAL SANCHETI

FIRST PRIZE, THE ONION PROJECT, WADIYAR COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
Dissertation Project:  Transforming urban landscape: Stories of circular Migration
2024-25

DHRUV SACHALA

GOLD MEDAL WINNER, CHARLES CORREA GOLD MEDAL, CHARLES CORREA FOUNDATION
Dissertation Project: Architectures of Incrementality 
2023

LSR COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE THESIS FORUM
Dissertation Project: Architectures of Incrementality
2024-25

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Project: Architectures of Incrementality
2023

THIRD PRIZE, ALL INDIA LEVEL FINAL YEAR THESIS COMPETITION
TASA (The Alternative Schools of Architecture) & RVS Chennai Padmavathy School of Architecture
Dissertation Project: Architectures of Incrementality
2022-23

DHANVI SHAH

SECOND PRIZE, DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD
VES COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
2021-22

NEEL SHAH 

SILVER WINNER, ASIAN CONTEST FOR ARCHITECTURAL ROOKIE'S AWARDS
(ACARA) 2021

RISHABH CHHAJER  

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Project: Spatiality Of Everyday Politics: Every Day And The Form Of Life
2023

GOLD MEDAL, BEST OUTGOING STUDENT OF THE YEAR,
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
Overall Performance, 2022-23

NIKEITA SARAF


GOLD MEDAL, BEST OUTGOING STUDENT OF THE YEAR,
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
Overall Performance, 2021-22

Honourable Mention
India Lost and Found : Mumbai though a Site Lens
2020

MADHURA PATIL

Honourable Mention
India Lost and Found : Mumbai though a Site Lens
2020

PRANAY KOTADIA


KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Project: (Un)Canny City | Dérive Through Vile Parle
2022

SILVER MEDAL WINNERS, ASIAN CONTEST FOR ARCHITECTURAL ROOKIE'S AWARDS
(ACARA) (Re)thinking Wetness, Environmental Flows, Semester 6, Design Project,  2021-22

Honourable Mention
India Lost and Found : Mumbai though a Site Lens
2020

RONAK SONI

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Project: When Is Digital In Space?
2022

FIRST PRIZE, DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD
VES COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
Labyrinth of Transactional Spaces, Resources & Flows, Semester 5 Design Project
2021-22

RUCHITA SARVAIYA

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Project: Architecture Of Mass Living | Retelling Of Tenurial Relationships
2022

DEVARSH SHETH

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Project: Sense Landscape Of An Animal In An Intense Human Habitation
2021

GOLD MEDAL, BEST OUTGOING STUDENT OF THE YEAR,
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
Overall Performance, 2020-21

MANISH SHRAVANE

SECOND HONOURABLE MENTION, CHARLES CORREA GOLD MEDAL, CHARLES CORREA FOUNDATION
Dissertation Project: Space Of Inhabitation And Its Relationship With Artistic Experience
2021

RADHA IYER

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Project: Material Compositions
2020

SANIYA RANADE

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Project: Spaces Of Interplay: Between The Planned And The Lived In Housing Environments
2020

ARCHIIT CHATTERJEE

GRIHA'S NATIONAL AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN ARCHITECTURE THESIS
Dissertation Project: Architecture and Power: A Case in Public Buildings
2019-20

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Project: Architecture and Power: A Case in Public Buildings
2019

DHRUV CHAVAN

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Project: Architecture and Memory: Remembering Home in Involuntary Dislocation.
2019

RUTU KELEKAR 

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM, CEPT UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Project: Architecture and Healing: Civil War Inversion of Public Space Borella, Colombo.
2019