Aurgho Jyoti
Faculty, School of Architecture
Aurgho Jyoti is an Indian architect whose work aims to create cultural significance and social relevance through interventions that provide ‘temporal continuity’ and ‘spatial specificity.’ His work has a distinct interest in materiality and history explored through dichotomies of the global-local and the urban-rural condition. He was born and raised in the industrial coal and steel region of Bengal where he was trained as a visual artist before moving to Calcutta, in the year it got renamed Kolkata, a city that has been his source of constant inspiration. As a growing child, his travels across India with his parents fueled his cultural curiosity and a deep acknowledgment of history
Aurgho is the Founder and Creative Director of AUR, an international architecture practice between New York and New Delhi. He previously worked as a Project Lead and Senior Architect for internationally acclaimed and Pritzker Laureate offices, which include SOM, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Gehry Technologies, Studio Fuksas, and 3Gatti Architecture Studio. He is a licensed architect in the US and India and a member of the American Institute of Architects. With a cross-cultural international experience, he has lived and worked in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Rome, Hong Kong, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Calcutta. His architecture built projects include high rises, institutional, and cultural buildings spanning across the US, China, Italy, and India.
He holds an M.Des in Architecture and Technology from Harvard and an M.Arch-II in Architecture and Urbanism from Cornell as a Tata Scholar. He has conducted research on housing and materials at MIT Media Lab and Harvard. He holds a B.Arch with distinction from SPA, New Delhi. As an educator, he serves as an Instructor at the School of Architecture, Academy of Art, and has been a Teaching Assistant at Harvard and Cornell, and a Visiting Lecturer at Delhi College of Arts. He has been an Invited Guest Critic at Harvard, Cornell, UC Berkeley, Stanford, New York Institute of Technology, School of Visual Arts in New York, IE University Spain, California College of Arts, Academy of Art, University of Tennessee, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and the University of Hong Kong.
Aurgho’s works have been published and exhibited in the US, UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Austria, Turkey, and India, at venues that include, amongst others, Seattle Architecture Foundation, Heritage Museum in Astoria, Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco, Harvard University, Alliance Francaise Delhi, and India Habitat Center Delhi. He has been featured in The Wire, Dezeen, The Times of India, Indian Express, India Today, and The Telegraph. Aurgho’s awards include ‘20 Under 35’ by Alliance Francaise Delhi, SOM Prize in Architecture Finalist, Special Mention in Evolo International Competition, New York, and National Finalist for Bhopal War Memorial and Ujjain Planetarium.
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