Mr. Taha Mughal completed his bachelor’s degree in architecture from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University in 2015. In his six years of professional practice, he has held teaching, research, and professional roles in different organizations. He has been associated with organizations including the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) Srinagar, Prince Claus Fund (Netherlands) and Dara Shikoh Centre for the Arts.
Since 2016, he has been working as a Project Architect with INTACH Kashmir – an NGO that primarily works to conserve natural and built heritage in Kashmir. His prime responsibilities at the organization include research and architectural documentation and assisting different conservation and restoration projects in the region. His additional responsibility at the organization includes organizing community engagement programs for heritage promotion.
Mr. Mughal has been awarded the Charles Wallace India Trust Award (2021-22). He was also selected for the Chevening Awards (2021-22). Other awards and fellowships to his credit include the Effective Altruism Fellowship, Cambridge-UK 2021; the Kashmir Fellowship for Peace Building 2019 by The Bridge Institute UK; the Dara Shikoh Scholar’s Fellowship 2019; the International Art Residency Fellowship, 2015; and the International Art Residency Fellowship, 2013, by the Dara Shikoh Centre for the Arts.
As a Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellow, Mr. Mughal is pursuing a graduate program in historic preservation that provides interdisciplinary knowledge and skills in architectural history, preservation theory and practice, research, and documentation methodologies, building conservation, and architectural and urban preservation planning. After completing the program, he would like to return to Kashmir and integrate his learnings for the cause of conservation in the region.