Sarosh B. Anklesaria

Sarosh Anklesaria is an architect and educator. He joined Carnegie Mellon Architecture as the T. David Fitz-Gibbon Professor of Architecture in 2020, and is Associate Teaching Professor and Track Chair of the Master of Architecture (M.Arch) program. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon University, Anklesaria was a critic at the Yale School of Architecture. He has also taught architecture at Cornell University, Syracuse University, The Pratt Institute, The School of Architecture at Taliesin, Indus Valley School of Art, and CEPT University.

Sarosh is interested in an expansive notion of architectural agency that synthesizes architecture’s formal and tectonic capacities with questions of socio-ecological pertinence. His current design research considers agency across various scales and geographies to include investigations into the entanglements between justice, ecology, worldmaking and architecture. His recent work engages the afterlives of modernism in South Asia and the architectures of just transitions in post- and deindustrializing contexts. He is the coeditor of Building and Unbuilding the City Museum: From Le Corbusier to Ahmedabad (Routledge, 2026). The book brings local and international perspectives to urgent questions, with Sanskar Kendra, Le Corbusier's underrecognized museum in Ahmedabad, as its protagonist, questions of civic ambition and democracy, care and maintenance, and design as social change.

Sarosh is the recipient of the 2025 Henry Hornbostel Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest honor recognizing a teacher at the College of Fine Arts. His work has been supported by the Richard Rogers Fellowship from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Art Omi Residency and the Taliesin Fellowship, and was published in the Venice Biennale How will we live together (2021).

Sarosh has worked extensively as a practicing architect with Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York City) on The Shed, a landmark mobile facility for the visual and performing arts; with Herzog & de Meuron (Basel) on the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art; and with Sangath, the office of B.V. Doshi (Ahmedabad). In addition to his own independent architecture practice, Studio Sarosh Anklesaria, he also co-founded Anthill Design, a collaborative architecture firm based in India.

Sarosh's writing, design projects, and research have been published in a variety of media including The Journal of Architecture and Education (JAE), The Plan Journal, Strelka Magazine, The Architectural Review, Domus, Architect's Newspaper, and Design Today. He has also juried on the architecture and design grants panel for the NY State Council of the Arts. Sarosh holds a diploma in architecture from CEPT University, Ahmedabad and a post-professional Master of Architecture from Cornell University.

Recent Publications (selected)

• Anklesaria, Sarosh, and Lily Chi. Building and Unbuilding The City Museum: From Le Corbusier to Ahmedabad. 2026. Routledge Research Monograph. Scheduled Release: March 26, 2026.
• Anklesaria, Sarosh. "From the Planetary to the Cosmo-local—the Architecture of Food Systems." In On the Table: How Food Shapes the Built Environment, edited by Stephanie Sang Delgado and Brendan Ho. [forthcoming]
• Anklesaria, Sarosh. "Education as a Practice of Social Infrastructure," In after school, edited by Theodossis Issaias and Alyssa Velazquez, 102-112. Pittsburgh: in otherwards, 2025.
• Anklesaria, Sarosh. "Architectures of Dissent: Building Memorials to Gandhi through Everyday Praxis," In The Plan Journal, Vol. 2, No. 9. Shortlisted for Best Paper of the Year, The Plan Journal. www.doi.org/10.15274/tpj.2024.09.02.10
• Anklesaria, Sarosh, and Jonathan Kline. "Vignettes of Placemaking: Framing architectural pedagogy through Just Transitions/ Transition Design." Worlding Energy Transitions. Journal of Architectural Education, 78:2 (Fall 2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2024.2381998

Sarosh Anklesaria Research

News

May 13, 2025: Assistant Teaching Professor Sarosh Anklesaria and Studio Professor Jonathan Kline are invited to join the Transition Design Institute, led by Terry Irwin and Gideon Kossoff, at CFA's School of Design. The Transition Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is a resource for those working toward positive, systems-level change. 

June 14, 2025: Associate Teaching Professor Sarosh Anklesaria presents his paper "Architectures of Dissent: Everyday Memorials to Gandhi" at the 2025 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference "Conflict : Resolution" held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 12-14. Using the work of a recent ASOS studio, the paper critiques the state sponsored, "world-class" Gandhi Ashram Memorial Redevelopment Plan to offer a radically different vision for the ashram's future rooted in microhistories of the site and memorials of everyday praxis.

August 8, 2025: Associate Teaching Professor Sarosh Anklesaria presents his paper, "Architectures of Dissent," at the "Memory, Memorials and Resilience" panel of the 2025 ACSA Summer Conference held Aug. 7-8 in Charlotte, N.C.

Sarosh's paper "Architectures of Dissent: Building Memorials to Gandhi through Everyday Praxis" is shortlisted for the "The Plan Journal's" Best Paper Award. The essay builds upon work of a spring 2022 Advanced Synthesis Option Studio to propose alternative, liberatory imaginations for the future of Gandhi Ashram, through anarchistic, non-state, and everyday praxis of memorializing and dissent.

Sarosh contributes an essay, "Education as a Practice of Social Infrastructure," for the forthcoming book publication related to the after school exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Tracing architectural patronage through the lives and afterlives of Pittsburgh's public schools, the essay contends that school architecture constitutes a form of social infrastructure essential for public democratic praxis.