Raj Rewal (born 1934) is an Indian architect based in New Delhi. He studied in Delhi and London and worked for Michel Ecochard in Paris before opening his practice in New Delhi in 1962. His works include the National Institute of Immunology and the Parliament Library in New Delhi and the Ismaili Centre in Lisbon. He received the Indian Institute of Architects' Gold Medal in 1989, and in 2018 his drawings and models entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the first by an Indian architect.
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The Hall of Nations in New Delhi (1972), engineered by Mahendra Raj for the Asia 72 trade fair, was the world's first space frame built in reinforced concrete and the largest in span when built; it was demolished in 2017. The Asian Games Village (1982), built for the athletes of that year's games in Delhi, arranges its housing around a hierarchy of courtyards. The State Trading Corporation Building (1989), built from 1976, joins ideas from Japanese Metabolism with Mughal tradition: its structurally expressive frame of Vierendeel trusses is clad in polychrome sandstone instead of bare concrete.
