Najamun Nisha
Architect
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Nisha joined Studio Toggle in 2022. She completed her B.Arch from Goa College of Architecture, India in 2017 where she topped her class and was awarded the IIA Goa Chapter Gold medal and Linc Property Gold Medal. She represented her College for NIASA India and UDRI’s Charles Correa Gold Medal Award for the best thesis. She was amongst the top 20 meritorious students to win the Goa Scholars Scholarship from the Government of Goa, India. She did her internship with the firm, Design Workshop Goa; where she was amongst the team of five to win a design competition on ‘Housing in Smart Cities’. After a year of working with MSS design, Goa she went on to pursue her masters in Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design at the Politecnico Di Milano,Italy and graduated in 2020. The course focussed on the role of public spaces, open places, productive landscapes and infrastructures with particular sensitivity to the issues of sustainability and environmental compatibility. During the post-graduation program she was selected for Idea League Summer School on Ethics of New Biotechnologies at TU Delft in the Netherlands.
She is enthusiastic about sketching and photography and is an avid traveller.