Malini Kochupillai

Name: Malini Kochupillai
Country: India
Bio: Malini Kochupillai. After earning a B.Arch from the TVB School of Habitat Studies in Delhi and an MS in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, Malini worked as an architectural designer in New York and has been a critic at the New York and New Jersey Institutes of Technology. She joined the Sushant School of Art and Architecture as a Design Unit lead in 2009 where she started a ‘flash mob’ group with her students to study usage patterns of public spaces in the NCR and raise public awareness about related issues. Malini has also co-initiated the lecture series ‘Architects for Public Space’ with the NGO Greha, to foster collective generation of ideas for the development of neglected public spaces in the city.