Louis I Kahn Trophy is one of our legendary trophy and a treasure to the Association and to the Architectural fraternity. Over the years, trophy evolved in the aspects of competition and several layers were added which led to quite an amount of misconceptions, Though the intent of the trophy was to study and document our rich diverse heritage of varied scale and create a repository for the same It became more representation oriented in the past few years which brought down the magnitude of documentation and analysis. Considering all this the idea of digitalization was brought in, which will also ease the process of archiving, the publication (both print and Online medium) and reusing the drawings to help competent organisations to preserve and conserve the heritage. This year is the first year to this major shift the results were more than what was expected the quality of documentation and anal- ysis has really surprised the eminent jury panel. This book will be the first step for a great Indian Heritage archive that is going to come over the years by students, of the students and for the students. We National Association of Students of Architecture holds up this as our responsibility and respect that we pay to Indian Heritage Architectural marvels.
We believe one day these archives will be used by schools of varied professional to teach, learn and explore. We express our sincere gratitude to IN-TACH – Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage and our Moderator Ar Sathya Prakash Varanasi for making all this possible.

J.P.K. Vinod
National Advisor | 2019-20
National Association of Students of Architecture | NASA India.