RIBA South Conservation Group: Conservation in the Age of Climate Change

RIBA South Conservation group welcomes you to join the May online talk with our international guest speaker Dr Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar PhD, Associate Professor at the Goa College of Architecture.

Event Format: The 40 to 45 minute presentation by the guest speaker is followed by a brief opportunity for the audience to ask questions via chat or voice.

Dr Kandolkar will discuss his research on Goa's architectural history, focusing on early modern church design and the evolution of Indo-Portuguese aesthetics from the colonial to the postcolonial period, including lessons from the Basilica de Bom Jesus.

The Basilica of Bom Jesus boasts a rich history of over 400 years, attaining Basilica status in 1946. It is considered a remarkable representation of Renaissance Baroque and Portuguese colonial architecture

About the Speaker

Dr Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Goa College of Architecture. He is the author of the book, Goa’s Bom Jesus as Visual Culture: The Basilica’s Architecture, Image, History and Identity, published by Routledge (2025).

The book chronicles the visual history of the Basilica of Bom Jesus, one of the longest surviving churches from Goa’s Portuguese colonial era. Kandolkar’s art installation series, This is Not the Basilica!, drew from his research about the Basilica and was exhibited at the Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts in 2021.

His writing has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, the Oxford Journal of Hindu Studies, eTropic, the Journal of Human Values, and Economic and Political Weekly.

Find out more about our Group: RIBA South Conservation Group

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Header image: Dr Kandolkar book cover Side elevation image: I.Mahesh CC 4.0