Ateya Khorakiwala is an architectural historian and is assistant professor of architecture at Columbia University GSAPP. Her essays and articles have appeared in e-flux Architecture, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME), Grey Room, and the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE). She co-edited Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South (Routledge, 2022). She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and her M.S. in Architecture Studies from MIT, and was trained as an architect at KRVIA in Mumbai, India.
Khorakiwala is currently preparing a manuscript entitled Famine Architecture: Hunger and Development in the Indian Countryside (1890-1980), about colonial famine management in the late nineteenth century, its connections to India’s postcolonial countryside, and how hunger undergirds the aesthetics of India’s architectural modernism.
