Aneesha Dharwadker

Aneesha Dharwadker is the founder of Chicago Design Office and a licensed architect in the State of Illinois. From 2016 to 2024 she was on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she taught architecture, landscape architecture, and sustainable design. In 2022 she was awarded the New Faculty Teaching Award from the ACSA for excellence in early career design education. Now a full-time practitioner, she brings a strong educational and interdisciplinary ethos to her firm, with a focus on renovation and adaptive reuse.

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Field Notes on Repair: 3

The third installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care.
Field Notes on Design Activism: 1

The first installment of a narrative survey in which practitioners and educators share perspectives on the intensifying demands for change across design pedagogy and practice.
Dystopia’s Ghost

The remaking of New Delhi’s Central Vista provokes troubling questions about colonialism and nationalism, and about the already fraught relationship between architecture and power.

Reading Lists

Anti-Colonial Architecture
Global Design Practice: Themes, Critiques, and Radical Alternatives

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Aneesha Dharwadker

Articles

Field Notes on Repair: 3

Field Notes on Design Activism: 1

Dystopia’s Ghost

Reading Lists

Anti-Colonial Architecture

Global Design Practice: Themes, Critiques, and Radical Alternatives