<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; My relationship with NICMAR did not begin with this application. It began in 2010, when I made a decision that would fundamentally reshape my professional identity. As an architect who had spent years <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>between Architecture Studio and construction sites across Bengaluru, Pune. I had witnessed firsthand the gap between a beautiful design and its Coordinated<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>and successful execution. I knew there had to be a better way to build&mdash;and I came to NICMAR to find it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The Advanced Construction Management program at NICMAR, Pune, which I completed as part of the 2010-2012 batch, was my bridge between two worlds. Before NICMAR, I saw buildings as an architect sees them&mdash;through the lens of form, material, and aesthetic expression. After NICMAR, I learned to see them as a project manager sees them: as complex systems of resources, timelines, contracts, and human coordination. Those two years at NICMAR transformed me from a designer who happened to work majorly in Architectural Studios into a construction professional who happened to have an architect's eye.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Armed with this dual perspective, I returned to the classroom. Since 2015, I have served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, PDA College of Engineering in Kalaburagi&mdash;now Poojya Dr. Shivakumar Swamiji School of Architecture. They arrive with sketchbooks full of ideas, but they leave uncertain about how those ideas will survive the reality of a construction site. In every lecture I deliver, in every studio I critique, I find myself drawing upon the lessons I learned at NICMAR. I teach them design, but they are being taught by two institutions: the architecture school that employs me, and the NICMAR education that shapes my perspective.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I wish to join NICMAR as faculty because I believe there is no other institution in this country that so effectively bridges the gap between conception and execution in the built environment. I want to stand in a NICMAR classroom and share with students not just the theories of Architecture and construction management, but the lived reality of applying those theories across two decades of architectural practice. Also Keeping in thought my Personal Career Advancement.&nbsp;</span></p>