Education
S.M. Arch., Architecture + Urbanism (2007), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B. Arch. (2005), University of Waterloo
B.E.S. (2003), University of Waterloo
Profile
Neeraj Bhatia is an architect and urban designer from Toronto, Canada. His work resides at the intersection of politics, infrastructure and urbanism. He received his Masters degree in Architecture and Urban Design from MIT where he was studying 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. He has worked for Eisenman Architects, Coop Himmelblau, Bruce Mau Design, OMA, and ORG.
Neeraj has previously taught at the University of Toronto, the 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.
Neeraj is a co-director of InfraNet Lab, a non-profit research collective probing the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics, and founder of The Open Workshop, a design office examining the project of plurality. He is co-author of Pamphlet Architecture 30 (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), co-editor of Arium: Weather + Architecture (with Jürgen Mayer H., Hatje Cantz Publishing, 2009), and co-editor of Bracket 2: On Soft Systems (with Lola Sheppard, Actar Publishing, 2012).
PRACTICE
The Open Workshop (founder)
neeraj.bhatia@theopenworkshop.ca
www.theopenworkshop.ca
RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE
InfraNet Lab (co-director)
neeraj@infranetlab.org
www.infranetlab.org