I am an Architect/ Structural Engineer currently practicing in Bangalore, India. Prior to my current practice I was working with Advanced Structures Inc. Los Angeles, as an Engineer (1997-2005). I was actively involved in designing and implementing some of the cutting-edge building technologies at ASI, and before working for ASI I obtained my Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering at Bangalore, India. I was engaged in Architectural practice/teaching for two years in India. Subsequently, I obtained my Master's Degree in Building Sciences with emphasis on structural design, from the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, USA.

I have 20 years of experience in the Analysis, Design and Implementation of the following type of specialized structures.

• Tensioned Glass Structures
• Space Frame Structures
• Tensioned Fabric Structures
• Cable Net Structures
• Other Specialty Structure
• Steel Structures
• Reinforce Concrete Structures

Employment History:   Structural Engineer, June 2005-Present:

     Involved in Design and Engineering of Structures by providing total structural consultancy from foundation to      curtain wall. Structures have been developed using building materials/technology ranging from brick and mortar to      aircraft cables.

• Office Buildings: MAAS-3, MAAS-4, RPS, MAAS-7, RPS Ventures. GR Cloister, Office and Glass canopy for Klite Industries, 3M Car Care @ HRBR Layout, Commercial Building for Thakral Group of Companies.
• Apartments: Hongasandra Apartments, MAAS-6
• Industrial Buildings: RSMP, Mahindra Showroom, Amsteel Castings (P) Ltd, Kinetix Solution (P) Ltd.
• Institutional Building: Engineering college at Salam, Lakeshore Hospitals at Cochin, Auditorium at Bijapur, Library & Auditorium/Seminar Hall @ SMVIT, Bangalore.
• Foot Over Bridges (Skywalks): Embassy Golf Links at Domlur, Forum Mall, Bangalore, RMZ Ecospace, Bangalore, Elcita Skywalk Feasibility Study , Bangalore.
• Residences: AVC, Indramma,Verman. 

ASI Asiatic (India), Bangalore, Indian Business Development Manager,  Dec 2004-May 2005: Managed all Indian operations

• Developing business and governance plan for Indian operations, provided direction for organizational issues, provided presentation for potential clients, personnel issues, cost estimation, and tendering projects in India. In addition, monitor & coordinate with Asiatic for the technical bidding of ASI India structures with Indian standards, local material availability and local installation and field concerns.

Advanced Structures Incorporated (ASI), Los Angeles, California, Engineer, 1998-2004:

• Actively involved in designing and implementing some of the cutting-edge technologies at ASI, which includes, analysis and design of space frames, tensile fabric, tension glazing, fin glazing and other specialty structures.
• Designed and Engineered structures using a wide array of building materials namely Steel, Stainless Steel, Glass, Fabric, Concrete, and Aluminum that have significantly contributed to many of ASI's Design and Build projects.
• Glass Structures: Chelsea Carwash, Shattuck Canopy, HELO, and OCPAC.
• Tension Structures: Las Vegas Courthouse, NESC, Orlando International Airport, HMS, and San Jose Civic Center.                                          
• Fabric Structures: Universal Studios, H.E.B, Pomeroy Center, Sea World, and UWSP.
• Space frames Structure: Discovery Science Center, and The Cloud
• Glass Fin Structure: Alaska Heritage Center, and BPS.
• Specialty Structure: T-30, ONWD, and AOL.

University of Southern California, School of Architecture, Los Angeles, Teaching Assistant,1996-97: Teaching Assistant for a course in structural systems and seismic design.

• Conducted lab sessions, tutored students, and helped students understand and solve complex problems.

Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, India: Lecturer, 1995-96:
Lecturer at the School of Architecture.

• Conducted design studios and taught a class on structural systems and design, coordinated visiting faculty and students.

Deepa & Dinesh Rao Architects, Bangalore, India: Architectural Designer, 1994-95:

• Involved in all aspects of architectural design practice, including preliminary sketch design, approval drawings, construction documents and detailing, preparation of bill of quantities, making of study and presentation models and coordinating other agencies involved in the projects. Projects handled were residences, apartment buildings, commercial buildings, etc.

Education:  Master of Building Science (Structures) (1996 - 97)
University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA

• Graduate Thesis: "Eccentric Braced Frame a new approach in Steel and Concrete", done under the guidance of Prof. Goetz Schierle and Prof. Dimitry Vergun. Thesis includes damage control analysis and design of steel and concrete structures for seismic loading with the application of fail-save devices as damage controllers.

Bachelor of Architecture (1989 - 94)
University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore University, India.

Major Projects:

• "Study of Earthquake Resistant Structures" with an introduction by Prof. S.V. Ravindra; a handbook for both architects and engineers to design buildings in earthquake prone areas with an emphasis on reinforced concrete structures, done under the guidance of Prof. Munirudrappa (This work was acknowledged by leading scientists working on this subject in India)

• "Dasara Exhibition Complex" designed in the historic urban core of Mysore City, project includes site planning, the design of the individual pavilions, the entrance plaza, a city tower and other buildings within the complex with application of high tech ideas.

 Awards: Scholarship granted to pursue Master of Building Science program at USC.

Professional Affiliations:

• Council of Architecture(COA), India
• Indian Institute of Architects (IIA)
• International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS)

Honors:

Nominated Member (2013-16), Board of Studies in Architecture at Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU):

• Instrumental in revamping the Bachelor of Architecture curriculum at VTU (Visvesvaraya Technological University), especially the structure course in the B.Arch program, which is revised from detailed formula oriented pedagogy to creative design integration of Structures and Architecture by developing informed intuition for structures and by emphasizing underlying concepts and synergy of form and structure.

Nominated Member (2015-16), Board of Studies in Architecture at The B. V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology (BVBCET), Hubli

Nominated Co-Opted (2015-17), Co-Opted executive committee member of the I Indian Institute of Architects (IIA), Karnataka Chapter.

• Instrumental in conducting workshops on “Ward Level Understanding of Urban Issues & Design” with an intent to contribute in the development of Bangalore Master Plan. And also to show and help the Government and the local bodies on how to tackle urban issues at ward level and on how a Ward plan can be done and implemented.
• Part of the IIA-KC executive core team to bring the 100th year celebration IIA NATCON to Bangalore to be held in December, 2016

Research:

• Researched and developed a Structural Engineering software application  “Mathform” for the Computer Aided Design and Pattering of Tensioned Fabric Structures. Developed algorithms for non-linear analysis using stiffness matrix and dynamic relaxation, with AutoCAD 2000, Visual Basic, VC++ and Microsoft Access on Windows Operating System.

• Researched and developed Three New Cladding System, which could be used for cladding facades of buildings in areas of high seismicity and in particular in the state of California (seismic zone 4), based on the Seismic provisions of the California Building Code, 2002 edition.

• Researched and developed an engineering methodology, “Nonlinear Load History Analysis of Space frame Structures” to evaluate the ultimate load on a conventionally designed space frame. Both geometric and material nonlinearties with local/global buckling of the structure together with potential progressive collapse are considered in evaluating the ultimate loading. 
  
  
• Research and compiled a study “Structures in Earthquake” to a) Assess the performance and behavior of buildings in earthquake and b) Strategies for seismic analysis and design of buildings to satisfy building code.
  
   
• Currently researching to co-author a textbook titled “Light Weight Structures ” for architects and engineers to analyze and design of space frames, tensile fabric, tension glazing and other weightless structures
  
  
• Researched and developed a “New Bolted Spaceframe System ” for India. Even though space frame is a 1960’s building technology, but its potential to generate unique form, and its potential as a materially efficient sustainable structure type, remain largely unexplored and present significant future opportunity in India and I wanted to take advantage of this.
  
  
• Researched and developed a roofing system “Light weight Steel Roofs ” an alternate to Tensioned fabric structures. The forms are generated and structurally idealized using Structural Engineering software application “Mathform” for the Computer Aided Design and Pattering of Tensioned Structures. The fabric is replaced by steel sheet metal this ensures longevity.
  
  
•  Worked on an amphitheater Ferro cement roof cover for an institution building in Bijapur, India. The roof shell form is generated by our form finding software program. The structural frame work will be in angles and rods built part by part. I have come up with a proprietary method to assemble and welded on site. Each shell is about 60feetx60feet and about 20 feet high.
  
  
• Currently working on “Sustainability projects applying high technology, low technology and mid technology.” The projects are based on my  theory that High point of sustainability is to be live in harmony with the “Earth” by only consume what is available without processing or enhancement i.e. no fire, no cooking, no tilling, no construction, no tool, etc. High point of High technology is to colonize space and start living there or to create a sunshade to the Sun and reduce radiation and in turn reduce global warming. And mid technology is to design green buildings.
  
  
• Currently working on “Form Follows Formula” a research into non- conventional forms conceived with the aid of Mathematics (Differential geometry), and to Design/Build a Building using forms derived from Mathematics. The most interesting and exciting part of this research is the morphable, shape changing qualities of forms that are parametrically defined; the great variety of possible forms that can be conceived from very basic Math relationships.
  
•  Working on High-rise (Ground+14 floors) affordable housing using appropriate technologies for the proposed 2 BHK apartments of 550 Sft at a unit cost of Rs.5.0 lakhs in Urban areas.

Publications:

• Dr. N Munirudrappa, and Bharath Gowda (1993), Earthquake Resistant Structures, National Structural Engineering Seminar, Trivandram, India.

• Bharath Gowda and Hamsa G. Krishnaraj  (2004), Computer Aided Design and Pattering of Tensioned Fabric Structures, International Symposium on Shell and Spatial Structures, Montpellier, France

• Bharath Gowda, Abbas Golmohammadi, and Dr. Tejav Dehghanyar (2004), Making of the Cloud Structure, International Symposium on Shell and Spatial Structures, Montpellier, France

• Prakesh Desai, Abbas Golmohammadi, Robert Garlip, and Bharath Gowda (2005), New Point Supported Glass Seismic System, First International Conference on Advances in Experimental Structural Engineering, Nagoya, Japan

• Bharath Gowda (2006), Current Developments in Analysis, Design, and Engineering of Lightweight Structures, National Seminar on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering, Banaglore, India

• Bharath Gowda, Ravishankar Gowda, and A.V. Chandrashekar (2007), Review and Design of Flat Plate/Slabs Construction in India, Third Structural Engineering World Congress, Banaglore, India

• Bharath Gowda (2007), Neeru a Rainwater Harvesting Project for Rural India, Bharatiya Vigyan Sammelan, BVS 2007, Bhopal, India

• Bharath Gowda and Prof. Goetz Schierle (2009), Thinking, Mathematics and Language of Forms, Architecrure + Design (A+D) Indian magazine April 2009 edition

• Bharath Gowda and Nader Heydari (2010), High Displacement Glass Seismic Systems, Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction of The American Society of Civil Engineeing (ASCE).

• Bharath Gowda (2011), New Bolted Spaceframe System, Fourth Structural Engineering World Congress, Como, Italy

• Bharath Gowda (2012), Seismic Analysis and Design of Buildings to Satisfy Indian Building Code, Workshops on Seismic Design of Structures for Disaster Mitigation, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Banaglore, India

• Bharath Gowda (2014), Fabric Forms for Steel and Ferocement Roofs, IASS-SLTE 2014 International Symposium on Shell and Spatial Structures, Brasilia, Brazil.

• Bharath Gowda (2016), Architect-Engineer Dichotomy, to be published

Lectures and Presentations:

• I have been invited by Engineering colleges (U.V.C.E, D.C.E, M.S.R.I.T, etc.) and Professional organization (IIA, DIAF, ISRO etc.) in India, to lecture and present to Architects, Engineers, Students, Academics, and other groups, on topics related to;

• Structural Engineering
• Lightweight Structure
• Advanced Structures
• Earthquake Resistant Design
• My Academic and Professional work in the USA.
• As part of the Board of Studies in Architecture at Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), I have conducted many workshops for Faculty and Teachers on 'Teaching Structures for Students of Architecture' based on the revised Structures syllabus at VTU

Other Pursuits:

• Agriculture, we own a farm outskirts of my city, Bangalore, I am currently researching and planning to implement rainwater harvesting in our farm to solve water scarcity problem which is prevailing in our and surrounding farms, if I am successful in implementation, this will be a breakthrough for us and the local farmers who could also implement this technology. Also, working on setting up a biomass gasification power plant (alternate energy) at our farm that can generate grid quality power by using available renewable sources of biomass fuels like firewood, rice husk, coconut fronds, coconut shell, and crop stalks etc.

• Philosophy, with an intent to find the deeper meaning of my existence, my philosophical search includes study and understanding of Science, Indian Religion & Philosophy, Western Philosophy, in particular Modern Physics, Buddhism, Hinduism, Zen, Economic together with Markets and the role of Money in human life, Buddhist Economics, etc.