Convention · 2023
Design Carnival & Leadership Conclave 2023
Leadership Conclave
Two days of technical sessions, a leadership conclave on how the Institute governs itself, and the chapter's annual awards.
Two days in Bhubaneswar, opened by Mrs. Anu Garg, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Odisha, with more than six hundred delegates from across the country and over two hundred architecture students.
The first day ran two technical sessions and a panel on architecture, urban planning and sustainability, alongside architectural and cultural competitions for the students, and closed with a musical night. The second turned to the Institute itself: sessions on the IIA Constitution and byelaws led by Ar. Divya Kush, Ar. Jit Gupta and Ar. Prakash Deshmukh, a session on the responsibilities of office bearers by Ar. C. R. Raju, and a curtain-raiser on the amendments then being drafted. Ar. Vilas Avachat, President of the IIA, was guest of honour. Books by Apoorva Bose Dutta and Ar. Jit Gupta were released.
The chapter's awards were presented the same evening:
- Otto Koenigsberger Lifetime Achievement Award — Ar. Geeta Patnaik
- K. B. Mohapatra Award — Ar. Satyanarayana Achary
- Architect of the Year — Ar. Srikant Paikray
- Young Architect of the Year — Ar. Saurashtra Das
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