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JOY MONDAL
Founder & Head | WEsearch lab
Joy Mondal leads WEsearch lab which offers design computation consultancy to architecture practices in Southeast Asia. He has released Grasshopper plugins to automate column-beam placement (Eelish) and to generate Piet Mondrian inspired 2D composition and 3D massing (Chingree). He was the recipient of the inaugural Saint-Gobain research scholarship. Earlier, he worked with the Sustainability Group at AECOM to setup POT (Parametric Optimisation Technology), which offered parametric performance optimisation solutions to architects for the first time in India.

Joy has over 9 years of professional experience as a practising architect in India. He has extensively worked on public sector projects with the central and state Governments of India, e.g., Redevelopment of Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, The Indian International Convention Centre in Delhi, Trans-Ganga Masterplan in Kanpur, New Allahabad Masterplan, and Jajmau Masterplan. These projects have won numerous international awards including the International Property Awards, German Design Award, and World Architecture Festival Design Awards.

Joy is a TEDx fellow, presenting ways of democratising architecture for everyone by using graph theory and shape grammar to automate residential design generation, thereby making design service more affordable. He is a visiting faculty at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi and at CEPT University, Ahmedabad. His research has been published in various international CAAD conference proceedings including at ICETAD, SIGRADI and ASCAAD. He has tutored multiple international workshops including at Tongji University in Shanghai, The Chinese University in Honk Kong, The American University in Cairo, and University of Southern California.