About

Ankur Podder received a Bachelor of Architecture from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (India) in 2015, further completing Post-Graduate Certificate in Architecture through cooperative masterclass from Dessau International Architecture (Bauhaus) Graduate School (Germany) by early 2016.

In summer of 2015, he successfully co-initiated Wikihouse India Chapter (WikiHouseIND) motivating designers towards Open Source Building System. He is currently working as Assistant Architect in Nonscale Co., Tokyo, Japan, and is also Guest Writer for Architecture in Development (AiD).

His travels across metropolitan cities of India, Europe and Japan helped him gain an inclination of interest towards 'tall' buildings and the contextual identities that surround and morph them.