Faculty Profile

Name : Savar Suri

Profile/Designation : Assistant Professor

Education : M. Arch (Built Heritage Architectural Conservation), B. Arch

Email : savarsuri@sushantuniversity.edu.in (official)

                savarsuri@gmail.com (personal)

Links:

LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/savarsuri

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Savar_Suri

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NGrn54YAAAAJ&hl=en

Academia: https://sushantschool.academia.edu/SavarSuri

Any other:

                SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=6704003

                Vidwan: https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/574455

                Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4731-371X

                Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/KII-1416-2024        

 

Short Biography (250- 300 words)

Savar Suri is a Delhi based Architect and Researcher with decades of industry experience with corporates and architectural firms such as morphogenesis where he worked on commercial projects and SpiceJet, being the in-house Architect in the special projects division. Also, with Helios he has worked on high end residences and farmhouses. He also has a master’s degree in Built Heritage Architectural Conservation and has worked with the Architectural Heritage division of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage or INTACH, an institution recognized as one of the world’s largest heritage organizations. He worked on the built heritage listing and reports of districts Meerut, Muzaffarnagar and Bijnaur as well as on the Ganga Documentation database as a part of the Ganga Cultural Documentation under National Mission of Clean Ganga (NMCG) programme of the central government of India. In addition to the same, Savar Suri has been publishing and presenting his research at various conferences and across various academic platforms and journals. His research is available at the Sushant University E-Block library, an excellent resource in terms of journals, periodicals, books and a vast pool of research papers and thesis documents. Happy to share that the School Of Art & Architecture, Sushant University is steadily making its mark in global research circles. Featured on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) by Elsevier, we are contributing to critical discourses on architecture, heritage, urbanism, and the impact of art on society and students of batch 2024-29, under his guidance have published papers in Journals that have started showing up on academic platforms such as ResearchGate and Google Scholar, a dedicated ResearchGate Lab has been created to showcase the research papers of the students, under the subject Art and Art Appreciation, highlighting how creative expression is deeply tied to critical inquiry available at https://www.researchgate.net/lab/Savar-Suri-Lab-Art-and-Art-Appreciation-Savar-Suri

Research Interests

Built Heritage, Culture, Architectural Conservation, Architecture, Mythology

Publications

Articles in Journals and Chapters (Starting from the Latest)

1. Architectural Symbolism: a study of the Golden Temple, Amritsar concurrently featured on three Elsevier - SSRN top ten download lists (worldwide) for: Architecture Design & Professional Practice eJournal, Architecture Education eJournal, Architecture History & Historic Preservation eJournal, Anthropology of Religion eJournal and Cultural Anthropology: History, Theory, Methods & Applications eJournal. Available to read at:  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5159651 

2. Presented a paper on The Curious Case of the Hidden Heritage of Gurgaon in the 10th Annual Research Meet – ARM 2024 (Scientific Conference ISBN: 978-81-969897-1-2) organized by the Centre for Research and Innovation of Venus International Foundation.
3. Suri, S. (2024) Looking at Built Heritage through a lens of Space and Time. Architecture Design & Professional Practice eJournal, Architecture Education eJournal, Architecture History & Historic Preservation eJournal, Architecture Sciences eJournal, Cultural Anthropology: History, Theory, Methods & Applications eJournal, Special Collections, Archives & Museums eJournal and Visual Anthropology, Media Studies & Performance eJournal. Available to read at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4934523
4. Suri, S. (2024) ‘Architecture and Heritage in Cinema: The Built and Unbuilt.’, Journal Of The Indian Institute Of Architects. Indian Institute of Architects, 89(03), pp. 20-23. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/117619866/Architecture_and_Heritage_in_Indian_Cinema_The_Built_and_Unbuilt
5. Suri, S. (2024). Rehabilitation versus Redevelopment of Slums. Social Science Research Network. [online] doi: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4816163. Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4816163
6. Suri, S. (2024). Architectonic - Timeless Architecture with Dated Technology. Social Science Research Network. [online] doi: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4816179. Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4816179
7. Suri, S. (2023) ‘PRADHANMANTRI SANGRAHALAYA’, Journal Of The Indian Institute Of Architects. Indian Institute Of Architects, 88(04), pp. 108–111. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/101554193/PRADHANMANTRI_SANGRAHALAYA_DELHI
8. Suri, S. (2022) ‘LUCKNOW: AN ARCHITECTURAL DEEP DIVE AND TRAVELOGUE’, Journal Of The Indian Institute Of Architects. Indian Institute Of Architects, 87(05), pp. 106–110. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/82193111/LUCKNOW_AN_ARCHITECTURAL_DEEP_DIVE_AND_TRAVELOGUE
9. Suri, S. (2022) ‘THE IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC ON TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE HERITAGE: TAKING THE CASE OF PHOOLWALON KI SAIR, MEHRAULI’, Journal Of The Indian Institute Of Architects. Indian Institute Of Architects, 87(08), pp. 12–21. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/87774042/THE_IMPACT_OF_THE_PANDEMIC_ON_TANGIBLE_AND_INTANGIBLE_HERITAGE_TAKING_THE_CASE_OF_PHOOLWALON_KI_SAIR_MEHRAULI
10. Suri, S. (2020) ‘ARCHITECTONIC -Timeless Architecture with Dated Technology’, in Shortlisted for the “Essays In Architecture” competition held by Dayananda Sagar College of Architecture (DSCA), ArchDaily and Architecture+Design Journal. Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4816179
11. Suri, S. (2019) ‘The Connection Between Old and New Delhi With A Look At Master Plan 2021’, Journal Of The Indian Institute Of Architects. Indian Institute of Architects, 84(04), pp. 24–25. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/43922496/The_Connection_Between_Old_and_New_Delhi_With_A_Look_At_Master_Plan_2021

Books (Starting from the Latest)

1. Suri, S. (2022) Vol 1, THE PURANA CHRONICLES VOLUME 1 – THE IDOLS AT JAGANNATH. New Delhi: Amazon. Available at: https://www.amazon.com/PURANA-CHRONICLES-IDOLS-JAGANNATH-Krishnansh-ebook/dp/B0B9T7799G/ref=sr_1_6?qid=1686134107&refinements=p_27%3ASuri&s=books&sr=1-6. 

Workshops participated

1. Speaker and Attendee: LEVEL UP YOUR RESEARCH GAME organized by DoPAR (Department Of Research and Planning), School of Art and Architecture, Sushant University.
2. Balancing Flood Mitigation and Preservation for Historic Buildings, AIA CES Registered Course No. HISTFLOOD60 organised by Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger and the American Institure of Architects (AIA).

3. Provisions of Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) at School of Planning & Architecture (SPA), New Delhi Organized jointly by Council of Architecture (COA) & Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE).
4. Participated and presented a research paper in the Vedatya Chaupal Online International Conference.

1. Helped organized and participated in the PhD Colloquium 2020 at Sushant University organized by Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Sushant School of Planning and Development, and Sushant School of Design. 

FDPs Attended

1. Attendee: Everyone Can Design 2.0 : Al in the Creative Realm held at School of Art & Architecture, Sushant University from 21st to 25th July, 2025
2. Speaker, Delegate (Attendee) and Awardee: 10th Annual Research Meet – ARM 2024 (Scientific Conference ISBN: 978-81-969897-1-2) Theme: Diverse Approach to Address Societal Challenges and Deliver Novel Solutions) organized by the Centre for Research and Innovation of Venus International Foundation.
3. Attendee: Five Day Online National Faculty Development Programme Institutional Strengthening for Funded Research Projects and Publications Sponsored and organized by Council of Architecture Training & Research Centre (COA-TRC) In collaboration with School of Art & Architecture, Sushant University, Gurugram. 
4. Attendee: Workshop on National Institutional Ranking Framework organised by Directorate of Higher Education Haryana in Collaboration with Amity University Haryana. 

Awards and Achievements (including Scholarship)

1. Awarded Certificate Of Excellence in Peer Reviewing by B.P. International Publishers, Manchester, United Kingdom in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the quality of the journal on Built Environment as a peer reviewer.
2. Awarded Certificate Of Excellence in Reviewing by the Asian Journal of Current Research, for reviewing research papers as a peer reviewer.
3. Awarded the Young Researcher Award in Architecture and Built Heritage for the contribution and achievement in the field, felicitated at the 10th Annual Research Awards of the Venus International Foundation: Centre for Research and Innovation, conferred by The Board of Management of the Venus International Foundation, based on the VIRA 2024 Expert Committee Report and Apex Committee Recommendations. 
4. My research paper on the Phoolwalon Ki Sair festival in Mehrauli and its pandemic-induced transformations titled "The Impact Of The Pandemic On Tangible And Intangible Heritage: Taking The Case Of Phoolwalon Ki Sair, Mehrauli has been cited further in a Springer journal. The article is by Sircar, S. (2025). The politics of celebration: interrogating the secular heritage of the Phool Waalon Ki Sair festival in Delhi. Contemporary South Asia, 33(1), 36–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2024.2446283
5. The paper titled “Architectural Symbolism: a study of the Golden Temple, Amritsar” is concurrently featured on three Elsevier - SSRN top ten download lists (worldwide) for: Architecture Design & Professional Practice eJournal, Architecture Education eJournal, Architecture History & Historic Preservation eJournal, Anthropology of Religion eJournal and Cultural Anthropology: History, Theory, Methods & Applications eJournal.
6. The paper titled “Looking at Built Heritage through a lens of Space and Time” is concurrently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: Architecture Design & Professional Practice eJournal, Architecture Education eJournal, Architecture History & Historic Preservation eJournal, Architecture Sciences eJournal, Cultural Anthropology: History, Theory, Methods & Applications eJournal, Special Collections, Archives & Museums eJournal and Visual Anthropology, Media Studies & Performance eJournal.
7. The article titled "Rehabilitation versus Redevelopment of Slums" authored by me has made it to two of the worldwide top ten lists of SSRN (Social Science Research Network): Architecture Design and Professional Practice and Urbanism.
8. The article titled "Architectonic - Timeless Architecture with Dated Technology" has concurrently been published in three SSRN (Social Science Research Network) journals: Architecture Design & Professional Practice Journal, Architecture Education Journal & Architecture Sciences Journal.
9. The article titled "Architectonic - Timeless Architecture with Dated Technology" authored by me has made it to two of the worldwide top ten lists of SSRN (Social Science Research Network): ArchRN Subject Matter & Architectural Research.
10. The article titled "Architectonic - Timeless Architecture with Dated Technology" has been listed concurrently on three of the worldwide top ten SSRN (Social Science Research Network) lists for: Architecture Design & Professional Practice Journal, Architecture Education Journal and Architecture Sciences Journal.
11. Five of my research papers have concurrently listed in the worldwide top ten SSRN (Social Science Research Network) list under the Architecture Design & Professional Practice Journal.
12. The article titled "Architecture and Heritage in Cinema: The Built and Unbuilt” has crossed 700 plus reads on academic platforms.
13. The article on Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya, Delhi (The Prime Minister's Museum) has crossed a combined (preprint plus published) 1000 plus reads on academic platforms.
14. The article titled " Lucknow: An Architectural Deep Dive And Travelogue" has crossed more than 1000 plus reads on academic platforms.
15. The article titled "The Impact Of The Pandemic On Tangible And Intangible Heritage: Taking The Case Of Phoolwalon Ki Sair, Mehrauli" has crossed 800 plus reads on academic platforms.
16. The article on the The Connection Between Old and New Delhi With A Look At Master Plan 2021 has crossed 500 plus reads on academic platforms.

Affiliations and Memberships

1. Registered member of the Council of Architecture (COA) 
2. Associate of the Indian Institute of Architects (IIA)