Aurgho Jyoti, AIA — Founder
Aurgho Jyoti is the Founder and Creative Director of AUR /Architecture Urbanism Research, an international architecture practice operating out of New York and New Delhi. His work aims at creating cultural significance and social relevance through interventions that provide ‘spatial specificity’ and ‘temporal continuity.’ He holds an M.Des in Architecture and Technology from Harvard Graduate School of Design and an M.Arch-II in Architecture and Urbanism from Cornell University as a Tata scholar. He has conducted research on housing and materials at MIT Media Lab and Harvard University. He holds a B.Arch with distinction from SPA, New Delhi. Aurgho previously worked for internationally acclaimed 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, on architecture projects across the US, China, Italy, France, Georgia, Japan, and India. His projects span high rises, airports, institutional, and cultural buildings. As an educator, he serves as an Instructor at the School of Architecture, Academy of Art, 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, Stanford, Cornell, UC Berkeley, California College of Arts, Academy of Art, 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, Austria, Turkey, and India, at venues which 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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Location: New York, New York, United States
Experience: 13 yrs 11 mos
Skills
- Architecture
- Urbanism
- Project Management
- Computational Design
- Urban Design
- Research
- Teaching
Career Highlights
- Founder of an international architecture practice.
- Extensive cross-cultural architectural experience.
- Published and exhibited works globally.
Work Experience
AUR - Architecture Urbanism Research
Founder and Creative Director (6 yrs 3 mos)
Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)
Senior Architect (6 yrs 4 mos)
Gehry Technologies Inc.
Computational Designer (0 mo)
Office for Metropolitan Architecture / Rem Koolhaas
Junior Architect (0 mo)
Harvard University | Graduate School of Design
Research Assistant / Teaching Assistant / Guest Critic (0 mo)
Cornell University | College of Architecture, Art and Planning
Graduate Teaching Assistant / Guest Critic (0 mo)
Studio Fuksas
Junior Architect (1 yr)
3GATTI Architecture Studio
Assistant Architect (3 mos)
Morphogenesis Architecture Studio
Intern Architect (3 mos)
Incubis Consultants + Architects
Intern Architect (0 mo)
Modern Design Group, Kolkata
Intern Architect (0 mo)
Education
M.Des (Architecture & Technology) at Harvard University
Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.Arch-II (Architecture & Urbanism) at Cornell University
B.Arch (Architecture) at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
ISC / Indian School Certificate at La Martiniere
ICSE / Indian Certificate of Secondary Education at St.Vincent's High and Technical School
