SOHIL SONI
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EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2009 - 2014 Graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from Balwant Sheth School of Architecture (BSSA), NMIMS University, Mumbai; Meritorious with a CGPA of 3.67
August 2022 onward and August -October 2016 Full-time freelance architect at Sou Fujimoto Architects, Tokyo
2007 - 2009 HSC from Sathaye College of Science, Mumbai University, Mumbai; Distinction with 89.3% (PCM 95%)
June 2019 - July 2022 and August 2022 onward Assistant Professor at Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, Mumbai and now a Visiting Faculty
1998 - 2007 ICSE from Jasudben M.L. School, Mumbai; Distinction with 93.4 % (5th rank in school)
July 2022 onward Freelance writer with Stir world
July 2020 onward Independent architecture and design practice set-up under the name of Open Fields March - April 2019 Design and Production Associate for The Shifting City -An exhibition by Architecture Foundation and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan; Curated by Kaiwan Mehta at Gallery MMB January 2017 - December 2018 Architect at The Busride Design Studio, Mumbai July 2015 - March 2016 Research Associate as part of the core team for The State of Architecture Exhibition and all collateral events at NGMA, Mumbai -A project of the Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai; Curated by Rahul Mehrotra, Ranjit Hoskote and Kaiwan Mehta. June 2014 - June 2015 Junior Architect at Studio Amita Vikrant, London Mumbai March - June 2014 Intern with White Ant Studio, Auroville
EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS AND COMPETITIONS Part of the core team to publish The State of Architecture exhibition catalogue, UDRI-NGMA in 2016 Winner of Adobe Design Ignites Change & UN Habitat Youth Fund in 2014; Part of the winning team representing DRP-BSSA, funded to design and execute urban farming practice over a slum in Mumbai Participant under DRP-BSSA in a joint Exhibition My Very Own City at Barcelona, Spain in 2012, representing Mumbai; as part of the World Bank symposium Rethinking Cities: Framing the Future