Baumer Lecture Series, Neeraj Bhatia

Neeraj Bhatia is an architect, urban designer, and educator whose work resides at the intersection of politics, infrastructure, and urbanism. He is the founder of the design practice THE OPEN WORKSHOP and an associate professor at the California College of the Arts where he directs Urban Works Agency, an urbanism research lab.

Bhatia and The Open Workshop designed and curated the exhibition Life After Property, currently on view in the Banvard Gallery.

Select honors include the Architectural League Young Architects Prize, the Emerging Leaders Award from Design Intelligence, and the Canadian Prix de Rome.

THE OPEN WORKSHOP’s design research has been commissioned by the Seoul Biennale, Venice Biennale, Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, among other venues.

Neeraj is the author of New Investigations in Collective Form and co-editor of Bracket [Takes Action], Bracket [On Sharing], and The Petropolis of Tomorrow.