The 2019 edition of the annual Reinwardt Memorial Lecture was delivered by Aishwarya Tipnis, a New Delhi-based conservation architect. Her remarkable story recounts how she managed, more or less singlehandedly, to rekindle popular interest in architectural heritage in her home town New Delhi, and beyond. At the centre of the story is a 160year old ‘town house’, a haveli in Old Delhi, whose historic restoration turned out to be the first private one in the city. She did not achieve this by a preservationist campaigning or a PR offensive. Rather, for close to a decade, she had  engaged herself with a family, the owners of a ‘heritage building’, as well as its neighbourhood https://www.reinwardt.ahk.nl/media/rwa/docs/Publicaties/Engagements_in_the_Courtyard_Aiswarhya_Tipnis.pdf