Ajay Manthripragada

Ajay Manthripragada joins the faculty in fall 2024. Previously, he taught at several institutions, including the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and, as Wortham Fellow, the Rice University School of Architecture. Themes covered in recent teaching include the shifting juridical landscape of California housing and the study of extracanonical references in the design process. He has published in Log, domus, and Cite, among others.

Manthripragada’s practice is widely recognized for carefully crafted buildings that are at once conceptually and experientially rich. Currently, the office is designing projects in India and California, including a 180-bed junior college dormitory in Mangaluru and an artist’s studio south of San Francisco. 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 Lily Auchincloss Rome Prize in Architecture.