Ajay Manthripragada
| Position | Assistant Professor |
|---|---|
| Phone | contact via email |
| amanthri@calpoly.edu | |
| Office | on leave Winter/Spring 2022 |
| Website | www.manthripragada.net |
Profile
Ajay Manthripragada joined the faculty in fall 2020 as an Assistant Professor of Design and Representation. His practice and teaching focus on the operativity of geometry, history and context in constructing buildings. He was previously the Harry K. and Albert K. Smith Visiting Critic and a Wortham Fellow at the Rice University School of Architecture. He has also taught at California College of the Arts, UC Berkeley and Rhode Island School of Design. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from UC Berkeley and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University.
Manthripragada founded his studio in 2014 after working in various architecture firms in Paris, New York and San Francisco. Based in California, the office’s work has been exhibited at MoMA, the Graduate School of Design at Harvard and the School of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 2018, he was nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize as an emerging practitioner.
Experience
Educational Credentials:
Master of Architecture, Princeton University
Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Berkeley
Teaching Experience:
Harry K. and Albert K. Smith Visiting Ciritc, Rice University, 2019-2020
Wortham Fellow, Rice University, 2017-2019
Visiting Assistant Professor, Rhode Island School of Design, 2019
Lecturer, UC Berkeley, 2011-2017
Lecturer, California College of the Arts, 2010-2011
Professional Experience:
Principal, Manthripragada, 2014–present
Principal. Jermyn Manthripragada Architecture, 2012–2014
Designer, MAK Studio, 2010–2012
Designer, Aranda/Lasch, 2004–2006
Designer, Oualalou + Choi, 2003–2004
Selected Publications and Exhibitions
- Co-guest editor (with Piergianna Mazzocca) of Cite 2020, journal of the Rice Design Alliance (forthcoming)
- "On Off-Squares" in PLAT 8.0: Simplicity, 2019
- Exhibition of work at Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech (Group Show, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder, curators), 2018
- Publication of Page House in Not Interesting: At the Limits of Criticism in Architecture (Andrew Atwood, San Francisco: ARD), 2018
Selected Awards
- Ceramics of Italy Architecture Prize, Confindustria Ceramica, Bologna, 2019
- Nomination, Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (Emerging Practice), IIT Chicago, 2018
- Third Place (with Michelle Chang), Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition, Tokyo, 2017
- Honor Award, AIA East Bay, Berkeley, 2015
Selected Activities
- Academic Lead, In-Arch Summer Program UC Berkeley, 2014-2016
- Assistant Director, Berkeley Connect Mentorship Program, UC Berkeley, 2013-2015
Updated 1.13.2022