Mendis, Bimal

Mr. Mendis conducts research on urban infrastructures, including the development of a spatial plan for the Republic of Maldives and a network of roadside health clinics in Mozambique. His design for a sustainability index to measure and manage urban developments was awarded a grant from the Hines Research Fund for Advanced Sustainability in Architecture. Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, Mr. Mendis was a project manager at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam and Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects in New Haven, where he led numerous large-scale international projects, including the new Central Library at Education City in Doha, Qatar. His scholarly research on the growing network of educational establishments in the Middle East has been published in Al Manakh and Al Manakh 2: Export Gulf. Mr. Mendis’s work has won numerous awards and competitions, including the winning entry for “Intertidal,” an urban tidal park in Buzzard’s Bay, Mass. He is also the director of Undergraduate Studies in Architecture at the School. Mr. Mendis received a B.A. and an M.Arch. from Yale University.