Samarth is a writer and architectural designer from India, currently based in the United States. His research interests broadly involve questioning how architecture and design have become tools for violence under authoritarian power. His recent work, traces how architectural and spatial knowledges are maneuvered to introduce illiberal forms of governance in India's liberal democracy. He has published with Constructs, Pidgin, Paprika, Bnieuws, and Datum and was recognized by the Avery Review. He is also a co-editor for the 58th issue of Perspecta, the Yale architectural journal, to be published by the MIT Press in 2026. Their issue of Perspecta is entitled ‘Sweat,’ which examining the corporeal impacts of climate, migration, and labor together. He has participated at the Canadian Center for Architecture, the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, The Society of Architectural Historians, TU Delft, and Yale Macmillan Center's Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement and Humanitarian Response.
ARCH 160: Introduction to Urban Studies (Yale School of Architecture, Spring 2024, Teaching Fellow).
ARCH 280: American Architecture and Urbanism (Yale School of Architecture, Fall 2023, Teaching Fellow).
HSAR / ARCH 312: Modern Architecture in the Global Context (Yale History of Art / YSOA, Spring 2023, Teaching Fellow).
UC Berkeley Graduate Division Fellowship
Beatrice Shinn Reik Class of 1948 Memorial Prize (Yale School of Architecture)
Yale School of Architecture Enid Storm Dwyer Scholarship
Yale South Asia Council Research Grant
Yale Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement and Humanitarian Response Research Grant
Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration Grant
Perspecta 58, Sweat. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2026. (Forthcoming)
"Groundwater Earth: A Necessary Warning (review)." Yale Constructs (2024).
"A Discontinuous Border: Between India and Bangladesh". Pidgin Press, Issue 32, Princeton School of Architecture (2024).
Abolition in Practice? Paprika Issue 9! Yale School of Architecture (2023).
How To: Do No Harm. Canadian Center for Architecture (2022). (Group Residency + Online Publication).*
"Where is Care, Collective, Beauty?" Bnieuws 55/03, TU Delft (2022).*
"From Scarce Space to Cleansed Space: Mapping Irregular Histories of Mumbai." The Avery Review Essay Prize, Honorable Mention (2021).
Datum (multiple Issues) Iowa State University.*
*indicates multiple authors