Vignesh has over 14 years of diverse architectural and academic experience internationally.

In his current role as an Associate at PTA Architecture in Melbourne, he is working on projects ranging from residential, institutional and master planning in both urban and regional environments in Victoria. The formative years of his career were focused on gaining experience in community-oriented design across a variety of architectural endeavours spanning in India, France, Australia and Switzerland.

He has been a Studio Manager at the Charles Correa Foundation in Goa and was involved with establishing the operational framework of the foundation and other citizen-centric master planning projects in and around Panjim. He has worked with Architect Bernard Kohn in La manufacture des paysages, a participatory citizen’s planning and action group in the south of France in a publication to communicate the participatory tools that the association has been evolving since its conception.

He has strong connections to the academic world and has previously worked as a visiting faculty at CEPT Ahmedabad and Deakin University Geelong. His guru and mentor is Prof. Neelkanth Chhaya with whom he has worked extensively in conceptualising the inter-disciplinary CEPT Interactive Studio along with Bernard Kohn during his time at CEPT.

He is a character who loves to operate on the fringe of architecture; he is interested in manual wood-working & joinery and is currently learning gaming design & coding for developing architectural-theme based games online for cross platforms.