Aurgho Jyoti

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT AURGHO JYOTI

Aurgho Jyoti is the Founder and Creative Director of AUR /Architecture Urbanism Research, an international architecture practice operating out of New York and New Delhi. His work aims at creating cultural significance and social relevance through interventions that provide ‘spatial specificity’ and ‘temporal continuity.’ He holds an M.Des in Architecture and Technology from Harvard Graduate School of Design and an M.Arch-II in Architecture and Urbanism from Cornell University as a Tata scholar. He has conducted research on housing and materials at MIT Media Lab and Harvard University. He holds a B.Arch with distinction from SPA, New Delhi.Aurgho previously worked for internationally acclaimed offices, which include SOM, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Gehry Technologies, Studio Fuksas, and 3Gatti Architecture Studio. He is a licensed architect in the US and India and a member of the American Institute of Architects. With a cross-cultural international experience, he has lived and worked in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Rome, Hong Kong, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Calcutta, on architecture projects across the US, China, Italy, France, Georgia, Japan, and India. His projects span high rises, airports, institutional, and cultural buildings. As an educator, he serves as an Instructor at the School of Architecture, Academy of Art, has been a Teaching Assistant at Harvard and Cornell, and a Visiting Lecturer at Delhi College of Arts. He has been an Invited Guest Critic at Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, UC Berkeley, California College of Arts, Academy of Art, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and the University of Hong Kong. Aurgho’s works have been published and exhibited in the US, UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Austria, Turkey, and India, at venues which include, amongst others, Seattle Architecture Foundation, Heritage Museum in Astoria, Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco, Harvard University, Alliance Francaise Delhi, and India Habitat Center Delhi. He has been featured in The Wire, Dezeen, The Times of India, Indian Express, India Today, and The Telegraph. Aurgho’s awards include \'20 Under 35\' by Alliance Francaise Delhi, SOM Prize in Architecture Finalist, Special Mention in Evolo International Competition, New York, and National Finalist for Bhopal War Memorial and Ujjain Planetarium.