VASTUVIDYA PRATHISHTHANAM
India has a rich heritage of architecture and engineering perpetuated through building traditions, craft skills and art forms spread over the whole of the land. This knowledge system comes within the scope of Sthapatyaveda or Vastuvidya. This technological heritage has not been properly studied or incorporated in modern architecture and engineering education. In spite of this, they continue to be the living traditions. Vastuvidyapratisthanam was formed to enquire into these traditional knowledge systems through modern scientific and technological methods and disseminate the same to the younger generation.
The organisation started functioning its activities of research, training, publications and took a leading role of dissemination of knowledge and information on vastuvidya. The following were the founder members :
Sri. Kanippayyur Krishnan Nampudirippad
Dr. A. Achyuthan
Dr. T.I. Radhakrishnan
Dr. AshalathaThampuran
Sri. P. Raghava Varier
Dr. P. Balachandran
Dr. Balagopal T.S. Prabhu