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 urban zoning policy and debates on the role of precedent in architectural design. Currently, Manthripragada is designing projects in India and California, including a 180-bed junior college dormitory in Mangalore, an artist’s studio south of San Francisco, and an outdoor classroom for a community farm in Ventura County. 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.