Professor Sudarshan Raj Tiwari

Professor Sudarshan Raj Tiwari studied architecture and earned a Bachelor’s degree from the School of Planning and Architecture, University of Delhi, in 1973. He took his Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Hawaii, the USA in 1977, specializing in housing in tropical countries. He received Ph.D. from Tribhuvan University for his dissertation on ancient settlements of the Kathmandu Valley in 1995. He has served in the faculty of Tribhuvan University’s Institute of Engineering Department of Architecture for almost 40 years and was Dean of the Institute of Engineering between 1988 and 1992. Among his published works are: The Brick and the Bull: An account of Handigaun, the ancient capital of Nepal (2001) and Temples of Nepal Valley (2009). Professor Tiwari lives in Kathmandu. Visit www.kailashkut.com for Prof Tiwari’s publications on Kathmandu’s historical culture, architecture, and urbanism