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Farzana Gandhi Design Studio is a NYC based architecture and urban planning practice that pushes innovation with a focus on sustainable and socially conscious solutions, both locally and abroad. Concepts are developed through the careful study of cultural, economic, and environmental implications.
The firm embraces an integrative and collaborative approach to design ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ FARZANA GANDHI, AIA, LEED AP Farzana Gandhi is a Registered Architect in New York (license # 038142) and a LEED Accredited Professional (GBCI # 10041665). She is also NCARB certified (# 84696). She maintains professional memberships in the AIA, USGBC, and Architectural League of NY.
Farzana is most interested in how widespread social impact can be achieved at the intersection of architecture and its environmental, cultural, and socioeconomic framework. Her deep commitment to community outreach is driven by deep inquiry, investigation, and integration.
This year, Farzana also co-founded Collective Infrastructures, a multidisciplinary design lab confronting complex societal challenges with unique comprehensive response. To build community-based social and environmental resiliency, the team creatively coordinates a rethinking of social, economic, cultural, environmental, educational, medical, and technological infrastructures in disaster-hit and/or disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Farzana is also a tenured Associate Professor of Architecture at the New York Institute of Technology, where she teaches design studios at all levels, technology courses, and visualization seminars and pursues multidisciplinary design research focused on social impact design. Both in practice and research, she is well-versed in architecture that operates on a number of scales to make small changes of large social significance.
Farzana earned a Master in Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. At the University of Pennsylvania, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish with Distinction.
Clients and communities are invited to engage throughout the design process in order to meet specific needs ranging in scale from small: product design and temporary installations to large: architecture and urban design.
We believe in giving back
Current projects include grant-based humanitarian work and pro bono efforts. Innovative solutions have resulted in a patent for a new roofing system and new models for rural tech education outreach.
Full services are provided from pre-design and schematic design through to construction
Experience includes design and construction of various institutional, commercial, residential, and community/public projects. We also work in product design, furniture design, graphic design, and exhibition / installation design. Extensive experience also in community participatory design practices, community visioning services, masterplanning and urban design, climate resiliency reports, and advocacy documents.
Contact Farzana directly at fgandhi@farzanagandhi.com