“Monuments of Everyday Practice: Living Memorials to Gandhi” is an online week-long joint symposium and design charrette organized by CMU SoA, in association with three schools of Architecture in India. The event considers questions of design ethics and justice as these relate to broad issues of worldmaking, and in particular, to the contested futures of the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad.
Announcing Track Chair Updates for the M.Arch and AECM Programs
The SoA is pleased to announce that effective July 1, 2021 Sarosh Anklesaria will serve as the Track Chair of the Master of Architecture (M.Arch) program and Joshua D. Lee will serve as the Track Chair of the Master of Science and PhD in Architecture–Engineering–Construction Management (AECM) programs.
Sarosh Anklesaria Writes on Recent Campaign Against Demolition of IIM Buildings by Louis Kahn
Professor Sarosh Anklesaria coauthored an article in Scroll.in, one of India's most widely circulated English news magazines, with Shubhra Raje and Riyaz Tayyibji. The authors reflect on a recent campaign to stop the demolition of dormitory buildings at IIM, Ahmedabad designed by Louis Kahn. The article calls for an ethic of empathy, care, and maintenance in the context of aging modernisms.
Sarosh Anklesaria's Work Featured in Strelka Magazine
Professor Sarosh Anklesaria recently published a longform essay in Strelka Magazine, titled “Cooking New Worlds: From Machinic Architectures to Biome Ecologies.” His work disentangles the machinic architectures of planetary food production, and points to other ways of worldbuilding, by introducing the Urban Symbiome—a proposed vision for a future based on an ethic of kinship, degrowth, and circular thinking.
Fall Lecture Series Concludes with Sarosh Anklesaria Mon 16 Nov
The 2020 Fall Lecture and Dialogue Series concludes on Monday 16 November at 7:00pm ET as Sarosh Anklesaria presents “Agency and its Affects.” Anklesaria is an architect and educator, and currently the T. David Fitz-Gibbon professor of architecture at CMU. The lecture unpacks the means and affects of architectural agency across a range of scales and geographies – from architectures implicated in the planetary production of food – to itinerant pavilions for less regarded modernist histories.
Sarosh Anklesaria Joins Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture as T. David Fitz-Gibbon Professor of Architecture
The Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture is pleased to welcome Sarosh Anklesaria as the T. David Fitz-Gibbon Professor of Architecture. Anklesaria is an architect and educator interested in an expansive notion of architectural agency, one that synthesizes architecture’s formal and tectonic capacities with questions of socio-ecological pertinence, across various scales and geographies.