Dr. Ayodh Vasant Kamath

Ayodh Vasant Kamath earned a BArch at Sushant School of Art and Architecture, an SMArchS in design computation from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a PhD in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Ayodh is a practicing architect collaborating with craftspersons to digitally design and build with mud, bamboo, and other non-industrial materials. They have taught architecture to undergraduate and graduate students in India and in the US. Their current academic research on making grammars integrates computational models of design and construction with systems models of the environment. The applications of this work range from using machine learning to correlate and optimize workflows and supply chains for sustainability, to recognising and addressing epistemic injustices in architecture. Ayodh is in the process of cataloguing and digitizing the archives of Kamath Design Studio (circa 1975-2020).