Niloufar Alenjery

Niloufar Alenjery is a registered architect, educator and artist whose work navigates the intersections of architecture, cultural memory and spatial imagination. Holding a B.Arch, B.Sc. in Architecture, and M.Arch from institutions in both Iran and the United States — along with independent coursework completed at the Harvard GSD — she brings a globally informed perspective to both practice and academia. As a licensed architect in New York State, Niloufar has contributed to a range of projects, from large-scale developments in Tehran to numerous urban interventions across the U.S.

Niloufar’s research and creative practice explore architecture as an evolving language that inscribes memory, time and cultural narratives, interrogating how the built environment holds and reshapes human experience. Grounded in phenomenology, she employs a poetic approach to design, investigating how architecture can resurrect lost histories and construct new spatial narratives that challenge conventional boundaries between the physical and the imagined. Her work also examines the consequences of linguistic and architectural homogenization, alongside the increasing mediation of human experience through technology. In an era of rapid digital abstraction, she argues for architecture as a counterpoint to the reduction of human experience to mere data, reclaiming the depth of cultural meaning.

As an educator, Niloufar is committed to advancing critical discourse in architectural pedagogy. She encourages an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from literature, poetry, philosophy and the visual arts to expand the ways in which architecture is perceived and represented. Her teaching cultivates an experimental design methodology, urging students to interrogate the cultural, sociopolitical and perceptual dimensions of space.

Beyond academia, her work extends into installation art, where she explores themes of memory, political othering and embodied experience. Her recent installation, “Fallen Voices of 9/11,” was accepted into the National September 11 Memorial & Museum’s online registry, exemplifying her commitment to translating spatial narratives across different mediums and scales.