http://remi.desouza.googlepages.com/home
--------------------
Remigius de Souza doesn’t prefer to identify himself with any
occupation or profession, trade or creed, place or people, class or
caste; and considers his name is only an address.
Born in Konkan, nursery school was his homestead, where grasses, bushes,
woods were in abundance, where rich wild life moved sang danced freely,
where he sucked honey drops from the Adulasa flowers.
At formative years he grew up on paddy farms. While learning by working
– experiencing organic farming, spinning cotton and handloom weaving,
adobe–abode building and its maintenance, side by side, he pursued
literacy in vernacular at the public school at his native village, free
i.e. at public cost.
He completed his architectural education at Mumbai in due course, but
walked away from the qualifying exams on the first day, only to return
after nine years to finish it successfully.
Meanwhile he worked in architects’ offices in Mumbai and Ahmedabad. For
seven years he worked on the Development Plan, Town Planning Schemes and
Urban Designs for the City of Vadodara (Baroda).
He then moved to Mumbai, and has been self-employed practicing
architecture, mostly for institutions and NGOs in Gujarat and Maharashtra.
For about a decade he had been a visiting faculty and theses/
dissertation guide in the colleges of architecture in Mumbai. During
this time he did some experiments in education and conducted workshops.
He researches and writes on education, architecture, housing, planning,
environment, and conservation etc., reviews events and books, and
compiles compositions in ‘verse-like’ format that is generally called
poetry, which are occasionally published. He has also presented papers
at conferences.
Time to time, over decades, he has been moving living working in
villages, cities towns, deserts, forests, ravines and ruins. His major
education comes from the countrywide open classroom. He spent one-half
life in rural India and one-half in urban areas. He believes,
Environment, Ecology and Energy are closely interrelated and should not
be put in separate compartments.
Homepage:
http://www.poetsindia.com/poet/Remigius+de+Souza/
Blog:
http://www.archetypesindia.blogspot.com