Peer Reviewed

Urban Design & Planning, Urban History, Global South Urbanism

Oommen, Thomas, (2024) “Catherine Bauer's passage through India: Frontier Urbanization and the Construction of 'Interdisciplinary Urban Research at the College of Environmental Design, Berkeley”, Journal of Planning History.

Oommen, Thomas and Sequiera, Ryan C, (2021) "The politics of infrastructural aesthetics: a case of Delhi’s Bus Rapid Transit corridor", International Development Planning Review, 2021, 43, (4), 479–500. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2020.21

Oommen, Thomas and Singh, Radhika, (2013), "From the ground up: Re-Appropriating Urban Infrastructure in Delhi" in Critical Planning, 20th anniversary edition, December 2013. University of California at Los Angeles. Los Angeles
https://criticalplanning.squarespace.com/volume-20-1

Architectural History, Theory & Pedagogy

Oommen, Thomas, (2022) "The Glazed Eyes of Architectural History: Reflections on the (Dis)Contents of Global History Survey Courses", Architectural Histories 10(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.16995/ah.8280

Oommen, Thomas, (2019), "Rethinking Indian Modernity From the Margins: Architectural Politics in Thiruvananthapuram in the 1970s," Architectural Theory Review, March 19, 2019, 1–24, https://doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2018.1516684

Oommen, Thomas, (2016) "Modern Urban Heritage and public engagement: The case of Thiruvananthapuram" in The Future of Historic Cities: Urban Heritage in South Asia, Special edition: Context: Built, Living and Natural, Volume XII, 2016. Aryan International Books, Delhi.

Oommen, Thomas and Pal, Shreyasi, (2015). "The Politics of Architecture", Economics and Political Weekly, Vol – L No. 14, April 04, 2015. Mumbai, India.
https://www.epw.in/journal/2015/14/commentary/politics-architecture.html

Architectural Criticism & Alternate Format Research

Oommen, Thomas and N.P. Narayanan. “Democracy, Development, and Identity: Notes on the Central Vista Project”, Architexturez South Asia

https://architexturez.net/doc/az-cf-219811   

Oommen, Thomas “The Portal: Reading the Kerala Students Union Building (ca. 1969)” by Thomas Panicker and A.K. Jayachandran, Architexturez South Asia

https://otaa.architexturez.net/doc/az-cf-194141

Oommen, Thomas and Gopakumar, Prahlad. “Behind the Trees” (Documentary Film)

https://otaa.architexturez.net/pst/az-cf-188221-1535460962

Curator, Modern Architecture in Kerala, Open-Access, Not-for-Profit Architecture Archive Focus Areas: design activism, oral histories, modern churches

https://otaa.architexturez.net/