{"id":961,"date":"2016-04-13T09:41:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T09:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=961"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:14:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:14:29","slug":"ajay-vaidya-ma-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/2016\/04\/13\/ajay-vaidya-ma-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajay Vaidya (MA 2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lead\">Ajaj Vaidya is a partner in an architecture and planning firm in India.<\/p>\n<p>Since my Bachelors Degree in Architecture I have had a growing interest in the design and organisation of city spaces. I started looking into exploring the topic further and Cardiff University stood out because of the diversity of professors and their approach to <a href=\"http:\/\/coursefinder.cf.ac.uk\/Postgraduate\/course\/detail\/p316.html\">urban design.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The time spent on the course was not just educational but also enjoyable. I developed great camaraderie with my fellow students as well as strong friendships with my professors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am now a partner at an architecture and planning firm in India. My role is to oversee projects and to promote the company in the Indian market. I also teach once a week at a local college imparting the skills I learned at Cardiff University to students here in India.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The skills I learned in Cardiff have helped me in qualitative planning of large scale projects down to the smallest detail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cardiff University exceeded my expectations in every way. The skills I acquired were not just about dealing with projects but also how to prepare oneself for any challenge and adapt to new situations. I am grateful to the faculty of the Urban Design course for making that chapter of my life memorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ajaj Vaidya is a partner in an architecture and planning firm in India.","protected":false},"author":904,"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,73,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-humanities-social-sciences","category-geography-and-planning","category-our-alumni"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}