Gaurang KHEMKA

Gaurang is an Architect with a specialization in Urban Design. He has 30 years of experience working in North America, Europe and Asia and has worked across a range of scales and contexts, from master planning and programming public institutions to detailed design of high-end hotels, resorts, and residences. He understands the essence of place making and the qualities that create some of the world’s finest institutional, hospitality, commercial and residential projects and combines that with his management skills to deliver a product of the highest quality.

He studied Architecture, Urban Design and Planning from University of California, Berkeley. and has worked with reputed firms such as Charles Correa (Mumbai), Kerry Hill Architects (Singapore), AECOM (Hong Kong), HOK (San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Singapore) and POPULOUS as Asia Director.

He is an active member of several professional organizations globally such as AIA, APA, SIA, IIA, SPUR, and sits on the board for ULI South Asia. He is a visiting professor at College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley; Advisory committee member at Sushant School of Art & Architecture, India; and Associate Adjunct Professor at the College of Architecture, National University of Singapore.

Projects designed by Gaurang, and his papers on design thinking have been published widely in several magazines and journals. He is currently writing a book that explores the nexus of Artificial Intelligence and Design in what he envisions will be a Hybrid Future for the Architecture & Design industry.

He is very passionate about cities and is an ideator for policy and planning for creating liveable cities. He was nominated by the Ministry of National Development, Singapore, and served as a Global Young Leader at World Cities Summit from 2012 until 2022.