Misri Patel

Misri Patel is an architect and researcher from Mumbai, India. Her research and pedagogical interests center around the intersection of material systems, computational design, and acoustics, with a strong emphasis on both traditional and advanced fabrication methods. She investigates how emerging technologies, particularly additive manufacturing, can be leveraged through performance-based design strategies and integrated with craft and other vernacular techniques that are both culturally resonant and contextually grounded.

Most recently, she was the recipient of the 2025 Ventulett NEXT Professorship at Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-25 Ann Kalla Professorship at Carnegie Mellon University, 2021-23 Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Tennessee, and 2019 Ballard Fellowship at LTU. Her work has been published in Unfolded, Portico, ideasforward-24H, Architect Magazine, ACSA, ACADIA, International Symposium on Musical and Room Acoustics, and exhibited at the Venice Biennale, DigitalFUTURES conference, Korea Foundation, and the Center for Architecture, New York.

Patel holds a Bachelor of Architecture, a Master of Science in Digital and Material Technology, and a Doctor of Design. Prior to her teaching appointments, she gained professional experience at the offices of Sameep Padora, Mumbai and LOT-EK, New York, and shadowed at Perkins and Will, Los Angeles.