Tithi Sanyal

Education

NMIMS Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture
University of Michigan, Master of Architecture
University of Virginia, PhD in the Constructed Environment (ABD)

Biography

Tithi Sanyal is an architectural designer and an urban design researcher pursuing a Ph.D. in the Constructed Environments at the University of Virginia. Her doctoral research focuses on Cultivating Urbanism: The Agroecological Landscape of the Post-Industrial Shrinking City of Detroit. 

Sanyal earned her Master of Architecture from Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Bachelor of Architecture with Honors from NMIMS Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, Mumbai. She was previously a Research Associate at RVTR, a research-based practice at the University of Michigan. At RVTR, she had undertaken  design research on sponsored projects examining the applications of complex systems theory to urban design, focused on increasing urban access and the food-energy-water nexus. Before moving to the United States, she was a Junior Designer at Anukruti, a non-profit organization developing community play spaces in informal settlements of Mumbai. Her design-research work is published in Architecture_MPS (UCL Press, 2023); Towards Fossil Free Cities (Cleaner Environmental Systems 4,2022); TransFEWmation: Towards Design-led Food-Energy-Water Systems for Future Urbanization (Springer, 2021); Plat 8.0 (2019); and Agora (vol 12, 2018). She has presented internationally at conferences on Architecture, Urban Design, Urbanism, and Interdisciplinary Research. She has been a design critic at the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia.