Attuning architecture to people is the core value of our approach
Our work starts with a deep understanding of human needs through the perspectives of environmental psychology and neuroscience.
We support designers with neuroscientific insights that help create environments better aligned with human behaviour, emotions, and well-being.
The Tuning Arch Urban Lab brings together a multidisciplinary team working at the urban scale to shape the conditions for healthier, more resilient, and human-centred cities.
Jagan Shah / Head of tuning arch India
Architect and Urbanist, is keenly interested in creating cities that prosper and thrive on the harmony between people, places and technology. He is a Professor of Practice at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, in the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre.
Over three decades of practice, Shah has gained experience in building design as well as urban planning, teaching and capacity building, and policy design and governance reform. He has led several institutions and organisations, most notably India’s National Institute of Urban Affairs, where he co-created several national programmes and incubated centres for climate adaptation, sanitation and digital governance. He has designed successful financing facilities for urban projects and created policies for Transit-Oriented Development, Land Pooling and Green Area Development. He has been closely associated with the delivery of India’s National Infrastructure Pipeline through public-private partnership.
Shah has served on several prestigious boards, committees and juries. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP) in New York and an Advisor to the Oorvani Foundation in Bengaluru. He obtained a professional degree in architecture from New Delhi (1985-90), received a master’s degree in architectural history, theory and criticism from University of Cincinnati (1995) and attended the MPhil program at Columbia University (1995-97).
