RICHANARVEKAR
RICHANARVEKAR

Richa is an Architectural Design Professional and Visual Artist that is interested in the connect between Art, Architecture, Urban and Interior Design. She earned her Bachelors in Architecture at CEPT University, India and was a British Council scholar to the Masters in Architecture, Urban Design program at The Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK.
She currently teaches in the Environmental Design department at OCAD U in Toronto, Canada.
She is a registered architect under the Council of Architecture, India and holds 12+ years of experience across India and Canada.
Her practice, based out of Toronto, Canada and Goa, India is multidisciplinary, with a focus on projects in Interior Design. She has led several interior design and build projects as a Senior Designer for firms in the Greater Toronto Area. She is also involved with sustainable architectural projects and community focused art and urban initiatives in both Canada and India.
Her work is centered on an exploration of vernacular, critical regionalist, decolonial and anti-capitalist approaches to material and ways of making.
PRESS
Presentation at the Interior Design Show, Toronto, Canada
Let's be Upfront about Carbon: How Designers Are Addressing Climate Change
Presentation and panel discussion with Daniel Hall, Architect (Sustainable.to), Ana Gascon-Marco, Architect, Dana Seguin,Interior Designer.
Jan 2025, Forthcoming
Article on Sustainable architectural practices in India, for Corporate Knights, Canada
June 2024
Final project for a class at OCAD U in Fall 2023, in collaboration with the St James Town Co-Op covered by local press:
Jan 2024
https://www.ocadu.ca/news/equipping-students-design-real-world-challenges
https://thegreenline.to/stories/st-jamestown-food-system/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Zz2iIekeM
One of 15 artists selected by SouthAsianVisualArtsCentre, Toronto to present on mentors from a racialized background
Oct 2023
One of 18 artists selected by MakeRoom Collective+ Daniels Artscape to present digital works at The Space Market
Mar 2021