Anandita Ayesha is in her second year of the Master of Architecture in Urban Design program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture (KRVIA), Mumbai, India and has professional experience at two Pritzker-winning firms - RCR Arquitectes, Spain and Vastu Shilpa Sangath, India.
At Harvard, her work has been focused on cities shaped by conflict, examining the embedded social codes in their urban form. Her research will investigate patterns that emerge in the built environment in the aftermath of violent outbreaks, tracing cycles of rupture, ruin and reconstruction. Working at the intersection of design thinking and the social sciences, her work combines spatial analysis, policy critique and grounded ethnographic study to envision more inclusive, democratic, and just urban futures.
