In March, 2013 Shantesh conducted a workshop for the students of architecture at the Department of Architecture, KLS GIT. The workshop dealt with addressing the pressures the fraternity faces, and is likely to face in the coming future. With a rapid development witnessed by our planet in the last five decades, and an immense amount of architecture created during that time. And, now with an anticipation of creating even more interventions in the next couple of decades than don

Shantesh Kelvekar's undergraduate thesis titled, "Mutating Culture in an Urban Milieu - A Synthesis in Time" was shortlisted by Archiprix International in 2011. The thesis, as part of top 300 thesis was exhibited at MIT, Cambridge (USA) in November 2011, and further was shortlisted to be exhibited at Moscow in June 2012. The thesis received a critical review from the Jury members of Archiprix. The thesis was shortlisted from the entries received from 74 countries worldwide. T

Shantesh Kelvekar presented his thesis at Kurula Varkey Design Forum (2010-11) held at CEPT, Ahmedabad. Among the panelists were Architect B. V. Doshi, Prof. Neelkanth Chhaya, Architect Stephane Paumier and Prof. John Sergeant. The thesis was shortlisted among the top 20 thesis of the SAARC Nations. Later that same year, the thesis was published at Archiprix International too. #KVForum #KurulaVarkeyDesignForum #CEPT #Ahmedabad #BVDoshi #NeelkanthChhaya #StephanePaumier #JohnS