Ganapathy Mahalingam
Personal web site of Ganapathy Mahalingam
Biosketch
An architect by education and training, I completed an undergraduate, professional education in Architecture at the School of Architecture and Planning in Chennai, India and became a registered architect in 1984. I came to the United States in 1985 to pursue a Master's degree in Architecture, which I earned at Iowa State University in 1986. I taught computer-aided design at Iowa State University for a year before I returned to India to practice Architecture. I came back to the United States to complete a Ph.D. in Architecture at the University of Florida, which was awarded in 1995. Having spent half of my life in the culture of India, and half of my life in the culture of the United States, I have that balanced experience in life that spans the Old World and the New World. Currently educating future generations of architects at North Dakota State University, I am seeking to share...in the words of Le Corbusier...les carnets de la recherché patiente...
With diverse interests that range from philosophy, architectural design, computational modeling, Poetry, Music and Art, to culinary delights and travel, I have that strong curiosity to learn about the world around me, and to wonder about all the things that remain to be discovered and done.
As a person who seeks to understand all the traditions that seek to understand, I am on a quest that is comprehensive, integrative and ultimately...enlightening...in the sense of an experience in which all burdens are lifted. Another experience of enlightenment that I yearn for...is being awash in a light...that purifies the mind and rids it of accumulated traces...traces the ancients in India called samskāras...achieving the purity of freedom from all that is made!
I believe that this quest will be fulfilled when we understand our own minds...in a single act of consciousness...foretold in the Advaitic tradition of India as...tat tvam asi...which I would be bold enough to translate unconventionally as...abide in That!
About Me
Curious, intelligent, philosophical, a design aficionado, who is seeking to transcend all his samskāras and subsist in a state of shaucha...