Sankalpa .

Sankalpa is an academic and practising architect, currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, where he heads the postgraduate program in Architectural Tectonics (MAT). His teaching and applied research focus on construction methods, structural systems, and architectural detailing, with an emphasis on material-driven and practice-led inquiry. He has contributed to several book chapters on construction in architecture and is involved in multiple collaborative design registrations and a patent filed with the Patent Office of India. His current work advances the use of split bamboo as a construction material in the Indian context. Sankalpa has served on government and NGO advisory committees on housing and construction and co-founded thumbimpressions LLP, a collaborative practice in design, construction, and detailing.