Over the last 24 years, Anand Iyer has worked:
- With State and Central Government agencies - on Policy and Program Management in Urban development in India;
- With an Infrastructure company, on Strategy & Planning in Renewable Energy Infrastructure, Industrial and Green Buildings PMC;
- With Research organizations as Consultant in Land Development and Affordable Housing;
- With a Civil Society Organization in Participatory Governance for Strategic Growth & Development, including building a new entity offering Municipal Consulting Services
- With Design Firms on Architectural Design of projects at various scales from residences to resorts; and
- As Academic Coordinator, Professor and Guest Faculty in Architecture & Design at different Universities in India
His work centres around organization development and people-processes; his research interests lie in the Social & Ideological perspectives that inform Sustainable Urban Development; while his passion remains in History and the Humanities. He has written, worked and lectured widely in his work areas.
He holds a Master's degree in Architecture & Critical Theory, (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 2002) and a Graduate Diploma (now Degree) in Architecture, (School of Architecture, CEPT (now University), Ahmedabad, India, 1998)
Full details in CV as per request.
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On anandiyer.live - How the 'mosaic' was made:
The intention was never a website. The germ was a long standing personal need to organize all past work, to be able to first understand, then discern patterns in terms of mainstays, recurrent themes, miscellany, and by re-evaluation, to hopefully identify opportunities and a future path.
COVID isolation in May-June 2020 provided the perfect time for the task. With categorization and populating being easier digitally, one did simple open-source coding (Drupal, courtesy Pranay Bharadwaj), adding categories like events and reflections, booking a domain and taking this online as a web site.
It now is useful for anyone else to get in touch for particular work, academic or professional; while being a continuous repository to update, organize and understand oneself. Technology is a product of Man and here, like one's image, it can act like a mirror, working to develop me as a product, vice versa!