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Alum Neeraj Bhatia SMArchS ‘07 was recently featured in ARCHITECT magazine's Next Progressives series.
As part of the feature, Bhatia shared a memorable learning experience from his time at MIT: "The start of my post-professional degree at MIT coincided with Hurricane Katrina. MIT responded with several classes devoted to efforts of rebuilding, examining water-based urbanism and highlighting the problematized relationship between architecture, infrastructure, and the natural environment. Embedded in that negotiation are deeper questions of class and race divides that architecture often attempts to normalize or control. These issues became the core of the Open Workshop’s work. In particular, we ask how this negotiation might unfold to empower local people as well as the environments they live in."
Learn more and read the profile here: https://www.architectmagazine.com/practice/the-open-workshop_o