Prof. Miki Desai retired from CEPT University as the head of the Masters Program in Sustainable Architecture. He has had the EARTHWATCH grant, a Fulbright Fellowship, the Graham Grant and the Getty Collaborative Grant. He is the co-author of Architecture and Independence, OUP (1997), Architectural Heritage of Gujarat, Gujarat Government (2012) and The Bungalow in Twentieth Century India, Ashgate( 2012). He is the author of Architecture, Society and Culture of Kerala, MAPIN (Forthcoming). He has held exhibitions at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich (1990), the Sanskar Kendra, Ahmedabad, (2012) and CEPT University (2016). He was a visiting scholar in the College of Environmental Design at University of California, Berkeley (2014). He has delivered a keynote address at ISVS Conference in Istanbul and will be doing so at the Cities- People-Places conference in Colombo in November, 2016. He has lectured widely in India and abroad.