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Jess Vanecek Joins YRP Team as Research Assistant Professor at Tulane School of Architecture + Built Environment
Jess Vanecek joins the Yamuna River Project as researcher and studio faculty at the Tulane School of Architecture + Built Environment, coinciding with a new research phase for the YRP at TuSABE…
YRP Contributions Included in the New Delhi 2041 Master Plan
The Yamuna River Project (YRP) is pleased to have contributed to the adoption of a “blue-green” approach as the baseline ecological plan for Delhi 2041, as...
YRP Book Review in Journal of Landscape Architecture
Excerpt from YRP Book Review in (JoLA) Journal of Landscape Architecture: "Worldwide, contemporary urbanization highlights a clear departure from cities'...
YRP Book Review in the Journal of Landscape Architecture, India
Excerpt from YRP Book Review in the Journal of Landscape Architecture in India: "...In A Vision for Delhi, the infrastructure study becomes part of a design...
Pankaj Vir Gupta Guest Edits March Issue of Motherland
YRP Co-Director Pankaj Vir Gupta was invited to be the guest editor for an issue of Motherland - a theme-based journal of thoughts, ideas, and unexpected...
Iñaki Alday Speaks at Mextrópoli 2020
YRP Co-Director Iñaki Alday spoke at Mextrópoli 2020, an architecture festival in Mexico City. This year's festival, entitled (Un)sustainable City, centered...
Iñaki Alday Presents at Urban Resilience Workshop in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Iñaki Alday presented at a workshop on Urban Resilience attended by the mayors of the most significant cities of Saudi Arabia organized by the World Bank in...
Wenyan Yu Wins World Architecture Community Award for Studio Project Completed Fall 2019
Wenyan Yu's project Rethinking Jaipur's Markets received the WA Award for Cycle 33 from the World Architecture Community. Yu's project was completed during...
Iñaki Alday on the Climate Crisis: “The Planet is at the Limit of Collapse”
Iñaki Alday talks with Fabian Dejtiar about innovations in cities related to the climate emergency, with questions that approach the urgency of research and...
Pankaj Vir Gupta Delivers the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Lecture at M.I.T.
In December of 2019, YRP Co-founder Pankaj Vir Gupta was invited to lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hosted by the Aga Khan Program for...
2019 ACSA Administrators Conference: Uncertainty
Tulane University hosed the 2019 ACSA Administrators Conference at Royal Sonesta Grand Ballroom in New Orleans to develop a dialogue about the crucial role of...
Iñaki Alday Delivers Lecture at ESTAB School of Architecture
The ESTAB School of Architecture in Barcelona invited YRP Co-Founder and Co-Director Iñaki Alday for a lecture on October 15, 2019. Alday focused the...
Common Room Foundation: Circular Cities – Regeneration 101
The Common Room Foundation, New Delhi hosted an event about the circular cities and how urban regeneration contributes to resolving the social and ecological...
GPSC 3rd Global Meeting: Catalyzing Sustainable Urban Futures
The 3rd Global Meeting of the Global Platform for Sustainable Cities and the 2nd International Conference for Sustainable Cities Program, the Global Platform...
Common Room Foundation: Urban Planning
Pankaj Vir Gupta, Co-Director of the Yamuna River Project, spoke at the Common Room Foundation in New Delhi on September 13, 2019. He discussed what urban...
YRP Featured at University of Virginia School of Architecture’s Centennial Celebration
2019 marked the 100th year for Universtiy of Virginia's School of Architecture. As part of this celebration, various lectures and events took place showing...
Yamuna River Project Studio “A Piece of the City” Wins ARCHITECT Magazine’s Studio Prize 2019
Now in its fourth year, The Studio Prize by ARCHITECT Magazine, celebrates excellence in design education by recognizing thoughtful, ethical studio courses...
River and Coastal Urbanism Dialogues
This dialogue intends to address cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional collaborations addressing grand challenges at the intersection of urbanization and...
Cong Nie and Hangyu Shi Win Award for Studio Project Completed Fall 2018
The key idea of our studio was to offer a dense informal settlement on the current floodplain of the Yamuna River a nearby planned community which integrates engineered water systems through green infrastructure insertions. These systems work across scales and typologies from topography, plantings, and wetlands to retention ponds and varied circulations. These systems are woven together to create a resilient ecology for the integration and education of the new community, allowing the floodplain to restore and reflecting on the vernacular landscape.
Christian Kochuba Wins Awards for Studio Project Completed Fall 2018
The project imagines a Delhi which has a powerful and sustainable relationship with its food, its soil, and its river. A entire community which prospers as farmers increase healthy yields through agricultural best practices, and residents interact daily with their local productive ecologies. Conceptually partnering with a variety of Delhi’s governmental departments, universities, and NGOs which seek to provide education and resources to Indian farmers, this is a proposal for a new type of productive park. Re-imagining an emptied drain corridor, the space is a place for clean organic agriculture to be displayed.
Darcy Engle Wins Multiple Awards for Studio Project Completed Fall 2018
One of the primary contaminants of the Yamuna River in Delhi is fecal matter. This pollution comes to the river, in part, as a result of a lack of bathroom infrastructure. In response to this issue, the research conducted throughout the project began by identifying locations where there is the greatest need for bathroom infrastructure. In analyzing these locations, scales and types of bathrooms were designed for these typical urban scenarios. The overarching goal of the designed interventions is to provide new solutions to public bathrooms while bringing them closer to the people who need them most.
Art Adda – Phy – The Yamuna River Project
The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, (NGMA), Ministry of Culture, Government of India in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in New Delhi is pleased to announce the artistic project “PhY” on the Art Adda platform, with the presence of H.E. José Ramón Barañano, Ambassador of Spain to India and Director, NGMA on Friday 30th November 2018 from 5:30 pm onwards.
Yamuna River Project Studio Trip 2018
12 students at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, participating in the Yamuna River Program Studio visited New Delhi from Charlottesville this fall. The students conducted research on the supplementary drain and Najafgarh drain and will propose interventions in this region.
Yamuna River Project: New Delhi Urban Ecology Selected by DAM as One of the Top 10 Architectural Books of 2018
Yamuna River Project: New Delhi Urban Ecology, by Iñaki Alday and Pankaj Vir Gupta, was recently selected as one of the top 10 architectural books of the year by the Frankfurt Book Fair and German Architecture Museum (DAM).
Yamuna River Project Studio Trip 2019
In October of 2019, 25 graduate and undergraduate students from University of Virginia School of Architecture and Tulane University School of Architecture...
Yamuna River Project in ABC Sociedad, Spain
The research conducted by the Yamuna River Project in New Delhi was recently covered by the renowned Spanish newspaper ABC Sociedad. The article highlights the urban problems faced by the rapidly urbanizing city of Delhi and the critical situation of pollution in the Yamuna.
María González Aranguren Joins YRP Studio at the School of Architecture, UVA
María González Aranguren, architect and urban planner from Madrid, has joined the School of Architecture at UVA as Lecturer and will be teaching the Yamuna River Project studio in Fall 2018
YRP Research Fellowship Awarded to Bahar Dutt
The Yamuna River Project, awarded a Research Fellowship to Bahar Dutt. She is an award winning Environmental Journalist in India, appointed as a fellow for a three month term. She brings her communications expertise to develop an advanced profile for the YRP in India.
YRP Welcomes Darcy Engle as Research Fellow
Darcy Engle, a recent graduate from the University of Virginia School of Architecture and YRP Studio participant in 2018, joins the team as a research fellow for the 2019-2020 year.
YRP Announces Brian Owensby as Co-Director
Brian Owensby, Co-Director of the Yamuna River ProjectBrian Owensby will be joining Iñaki Alday and Pankaj Vir Gupta as a Co-Director of the Yamuna River...
UVA Provost Thomas Katsouleas in The Economic Times
Thomas C. Katsouleas, Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Virginia and YRP Advisory Council member, wrote an article for The Economic...
YRP Welcomes Mriganka Saxena
The Yamuna River Project (YRP) has had resounding success in the NCT of Delhi over the past few years. Opportunities now exist for new partnerships and associations within the NCT and beyond with the aim to make significant on-ground impact and expand the leanings from the Delhi experience to similar contexts in other parts of the country. Extending her experience in the public sector in this domain, Mriganka aims to prepare a strategy for re-positioning YRP within the Administrative and Political structures to meet the above aim and forge new alliances.
DDA Working on Comprehensive Plan for Yamuna Rejuvenation
Press Trust of India "New Delhi, April 27 (PTI) Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri today said that Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is working to implement a...
Yamuna River Project Book Launch
On April 27th, 2018 The Yamuna River Project launched its first book at an event hosted by the Embassy of Spain in India. This event was a seminal moment in the development of the Yamuna River Project and garnered public support from Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Hon. Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Secretary of the Ministry of Water Resources, Mr. U.P. Singh; the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce and former CEO of the Delhi Jal Board, Mr. Keshav Chandra among others.
YRP Researchers Meeting
On April 23rd The Yamuna River Project held a meeting for YRP researchers to update the group on their individual research projects. The meeting resulted in...
YRP Welcomes New Researchers
The Yamuna River Project is happy to announce that our research team is growing! We welcome:SHANKAR NAIR Assistant Professor Dual Appointment: Department of...
YRP Fellowship for Doctoral Studies Awarded to Richa Vuppuluri
Richa Vuppuluri will be pursuing a PhD in Constructed environment at the School of Architecture, University of Virginia and has been awarded the grant in partnership with the school of Architecture.
Yamuna River Project Grants Announcement
Join the Yamuna River Project Grants The Yamuna River Project (YRP) engages the efforts of government agencies, experts and activists, in India and...
Research Projects 2016 – 2018
A list of the various research projects affiliated with the Yamuna Research Program.
Yamuna River Project Exhibition Opening at Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington DC
From Friday, October 13 2017 to Sunday, October 15 2017, the Yamuna River Project displayed their work at the National Museum of American history as part of the ACCelerate Creativity and Innovation Festival 2017 in collaboration with The Smithsonian Institution and Virginia Tech.
UVA Spring Symposia Overview: Challenges in Equitable Development
A series of symposiums with faculty researchers at the University of Virginia mark the opening and conclusion of the Spring 2017 session of the Yamuna River Project, focused on the work produced in partnership with the Delhi Jal Board regarding the Najafgarh Drain. Read further to learn more about the multidisciplinary conversations from the March and April symposiums.
Yamuna River Project Exhibition Inauguration: India Habitat Centre
On Wednesday, March 29, a complete schedule of talks and presentations will preface the inauguration of the YRP Exhibition at the India Habitat Center in New Delhi, India. After entering into a five-year agreement with the Delhi Jal Board in partnership with the University of Virginia, the Project presents a comprehensive strategy for the rejuvenation of all drains and water-bodies in New Delhi. The exhibition in India will be open to the public until April 07.
Inaugural YRP Exhibition to Premiere in March 2017 at India Habitat Centre
For the first time in the National Capital, a comprehensive strategy for rejuvenating all drains and water-bodies of the city is being prepared. One of the...
UVA, India Strike Agreement to Revitalize Major New Delhi River
"The University of Virginia has signed a five-year memorandum of understanding with the New Delhi water authority to map out an expansive, multidisciplinary...
Alday Appointed Director of the Yamuna River Project
Iñaki Alday, Quesada Professor of Architecture, has been appointed as the founding director of the first pan university grand challenge project at the...
The Yamuna River Project Update
Last fall 2015, a studio of 15 graduate and undergraduate students and two faculty members traveled to Delhi and met the Shure Professor Pankaj Vir Gupta,...
MOU Signed with the Delhi Jal Board, July 2016
The outcome of a series of meetings with the Indian Government, the Delhi Government and the governmental agencies related was a memorandum of understanding signed during a July 2016 visit between the Delhi Jal Board (Water Agency of Delhi) and the University of Virginia. The object of the MOU is the study during the next five years of the 58 km of the Najafgarh Drain, which accounts for 60% of the pollution in the Yamuna.
A River Runs Through It: Restoring an Old Resource in New Delhi
"Pankaj Vir Gupta tells the story of his grandmother’s younger days in India. When monsoon season subsided and the waters of the Yamuna River receded, she...
Embassy of Switzerland in India: Re-Centering Delhi
The 2014 exhibition in New Delhi had the goal of engaging Indian and foreign experts, practitioners, and authorities in an ongoing dialogue, through the work of the Yamuna River Project (Re-Centering Delhi) studios.