Ajay Manthripragada

Ajay Manthripragada's work expands the notion of site-conditioned buildings, looking to evolving ideas about perception, history, and material practices. His recent teaching and writing have engaged a range of topics, including the shifting landscape of housing design policy and debates on the role of architectural precedent.

Currently, Manthripragada is designing projects in India and California, including a 180-bed junior college dormitory in Mangaluru, an artist’s studio south of San Francisco, and an outdoor classroom for a community farm in Ventura County. In 2018, Manthripragada was nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize as an emerging practitioner. Just prior to coming to Berkeley, he completed a year-long fellowship at the American Academy in Rome as winner of the 2024 Lily Auchincloss Rome Prize in Architecture. He was a Wortham Teaching Fellow at Rice University and has also held positions at Cal Poly, Harvard, and RISD.

ARCH 100A – Fundamentals of Architectural Design
ARCH 100D – Architectural Design IV
ARCH 200B – Fundamentals of Architectural Design
ARCH 207A – MArch Colloquium
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