Jaimini Mehta is a practising architect and an independent academic
based in Baroda, India. He studied architecture at M.S. University of Baroda
and at University of Pennsylvania in the Louis Kahn Studio,and went on to work
in the offices of Louis Kahn and Mitchell/Giurgola Associatesin Philadelphia.
At present he is a Hon. Director of the Baroda-based Centre for the Study of
Urbanism and Architecture, which he instituted in 2006. He was an Adjunct
Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, NY and at CEPT
University in Ahmedabad, India. He has also worked as Head of the Schools of
Architecture at Baroda and Goa. His previous books are Louis I. Kahn, Architect co-authored
with Romaldo Giurgola and published in 1975, and Rethinking
Modernity: Towards Post Rational Architecture (published by Niyogi
Books, 2011).