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Misri Patel

Ann Kalla Visiting Professor

Misri Patel is an architect and researcher from Mumbai, India. Patel is the recipient of the 2023-25 Ann Kalla Professorship in Architecture. Patel’s pedagogical interests focus on material systems, computational design, additive manufacturing and traditional-advanced fabrication methods. In 2019, she received the Ballard Fellowship at Lawrence Technological University and served as a Research Lead at Taubman College on Long Range Glass. In 2022, the project won the R+D Award by Architect Magazine. Her work has been published in Unfolded, Portico, ideasforward-24H, ACSA, Acadia Conference Proceedings and exhibited at the Venice Biennale, DigitalFUTURES conference and the Center for Architecture, New York. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, she served as a Visiting Lecturer at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Patel received a Bachelor of Architecture from NMIMS BSSA in Mumbai and a Master of Science in Digital and Material Technologies from Taubman College, University of Michigan. Prior to her teaching appointments, she gained professional experience at the offices of Sameep Padora, Mumbai, and LOT-EK, New York, and shadowed at Perkins and Will, Los Angeles.