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Bhatia, Neeraj
New Monumentality in Passiac, New Jersey.  Design for a vertical university (in collaboration with the Platform for Permanent Modernity, MIT). Part of Volume Magazine, Issue 9 report “Suburbia After the Crash”.

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Title

Visiting Critic

Department

Architecture

Address

B39 E. Sibley Hall

Phone

(607) 254-2994

Email

nb433@cornell.edu

Neeraj Bhatia is an architect and urban designer from Toronto. His work resides at the intersection of politics, infrastructure, and urbanism. Bhatia is a codirector of InfraNet Lab, a non-profit research collective probing the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics, and the founder of The Open Workshop, a design office examining the project of plurality. He has worked for Eisenman Architects, Coop Himmelblau, Bruce Mau Design, OMA, and ORG.


Bhatia has previously taught at Rice University, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, and Ohio State University. His research has been published in Volume/Archis, Thresholds, Footprint, Domus, Onsite Review, Field Journal, and Yale Perspecta.

Bhatia received his master's degree in architecture and urban design from MIT where he studied on a Fulbright Fellowship. Prior to that, he attended the University of Waterloo where he obtained a bachelor of environmental studies and a bachelor of architecture.

Courses (selected)

  • ARCH 3308 / 6308 Urban Forms of Plurality
  • ARCH 4101/4102 / 5101 / 5116 / 7912 The Petropolis of Tomorrow

Publications (selected)

  • Arium: Weather & Architecture. Neeraj Bhatia & Jürgen Mayer H (eds). Berlin: Hatje Cantz (2010)
  • Pamphlet Architecture 30: Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism. Neeraj Bhatia, Maya Przybylski, Lola Sheppard, Mason White. New York: Princeton Architectural Press (2011)
  • Bracket [Goes Soft]. Neeraj Bhatia & Lola Sheppard (eds). Barcelona: Actar Publishers (2012)

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (selected)

  • ACSA Faculty Design Award “Next North: Architecture in Shifting Terrain” (2012)
  • Graham Foundation Research Grant “The Arctic Petropolis of Tomorrow” (2011)
  • Shell Center for Sustainability Fellowship (2011)
  • Lawrence B. Anderson Award, MIT (2010)
  • Fulbright Fellowship (2006)

Exhibitions and Presentations (selected)

  • Un-Privileged Views, “Interlace”
 In collaboration with Reto Geiser and Noemi Mollet, WUHO Gallery, Los Angeles (2012)
  • Next North 
(w/ InfraNet Lab). Solo Exhibition: Riverside Gallery, Cambridge, Ontario (2011)
  • A Manifesto for the New Collective, Neeraj Bhatia & Martin Haettasch, Rice University School of Architecture, Houston (2011)

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