Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar

About

Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the Goa College of Architecture. His research on Goa’s architectural history focuses on early modern church design as well as the evolution of Indo-Portuguese aesthetics from the colonial to the postcolonial period. He is the author of the book, Goa’s Bom Jesus as Visual Culture: The Basilica’s Architecture, Image, History and Identity, published by Routledge (2025). The book chronicles the visual history of the Basilica of Bom Jesus, one of the longest surviving churches from Goa’s Portuguese colonial era. Kandolkar’s art installation series, This is Not the Basilica!, drew from his research about the Basilica and was exhibited at the Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts in 2021. His writing has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, the Oxford Journal of Hindu Studies, eTropic, the Journal of Human Values, and Economic and Political Weekly.

Employment

• Goa College of Architecture Associate Professor
  2011 - Present

Education

• Manipal Academy of Higher Education Ph.D.
  2017 - 2020
• CEPT University Master of Architecture in Urban Design
  2005 - 2007
• Goa University Bachelors of Architecture
  1995 - 2000

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (3)

• Unbuilding “Portuguese” Goa: decolonising the British imperial gaze and recovering Goan agency in Richard Burton’s Goa and the Blue Mountains (1851)
  Studies in Travel Writing 2024 DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2024.2398438
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• Rain in the Basilica: Protecting Goa’s Bom Jesus from the Ravages of Climate Change
  eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics 2021 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3814
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• Consuming Goa Portuguesa: Vacationing in a Postcolonial Colony
  Journal of Human Values 2020 DOI: 10.1177/0971685820940895
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