Prof. Soumyen Bandyopadhyay

Soumyen Bandyopadhyay is the Sir James Stirling Chair in Architecture at the Liverpool School of Architecture (LSA), and Associate Dean for Research for the School of the Arts (SotA). He leads the University’s Heritage Research Institute and chairs the inter-university grouping, Heritage Alliance of the New Silk Road (HANSR). His teaching and research interests are focused on the historical, theoretical and contextual approaches to architectural and urban design, and the settlements, architecture and art of India, the Middle East and North Africa. Soumyen has extensive experience of architectural and urban design practice in India and the Middle East and has undertaken advisory and consultancy work in urban development, regeneration, architectural and urban design, and conservation.