Sarosh Anklesaria

Assistant Teaching Professor

TRack Chair, Master of ARchitecture (M.arch)

Sarosh Anklesaria is an architect and educator. He joined the SoA as the T. David Fitz-Gibbon Professor of Architecture in 2020, where he is now Assistant Teaching Professor and serves as the Track Chair of the Master of Architecture (M.Arch) program.

Anklesaria is interested in an expansive notion of architectural agency, one that synthesizes architecture’s formal and tectonic capacities with questions of socio-ecological pertinence. His current design research considers agency across various scales and geographies, to include investigations into the entanglements between justice, ecology, worldmaking, and architecture. His work is supported by the Richard Rogers Fellowship from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2019) and the Taliesin Fellowship (2019) and was published in the Venice Biennale How will we live together (2021). Additionally, Anklesaria is working on a project that connects the three built museums of Le Corbusier through a speculative itinerant pavilion. The project, supported by the Art Omi Residency (2019), problematizes questions of labor, display, and architectural conservation through acts of building and unbuilding.

Anklesaria has worked extensively as a practicing architect with Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York City) on The Shed, a landmark mobile facility for the visual and performing arts; with Herzog & de Meuron (Basel) on the Kolkata Museum of Modern Arts; and with Sangath, the office of B.V. Doshi (Ahmedabad). In addition to his own independent architecture practice, Studio Sarosh Anklesaria, he also co-founded Anthill Design, a collaborative architecture firm based in India.

Anklesaria was a critic at the Yale School of Architecture prior to joining Carnegie Mellon. He has also taught architecture at The School of Architecture at Taliesin, Cornell University, The Pratt Institute, Syracuse University, and CEPT University in India.

Anklesaria's writing, design projects, and research have been published in a variety of media including The Architectural Review, Domus, Architect’s Newspaper, and Design Today. He has also juried on the architecture and design grants panel for the NY State Council of the Arts. Anklesaria holds a diploma in architecture from CEPT University, Ahmedabad and a post-professional Master of Architecture from Cornell University.