Kadambari Baxi is an architect and educator based in New York.

She works on projects and exhibitions where design, media, research, and activism converge to foster public pedagogy on vital socio-political issues of today. Recent work includes: RENDER LABOR:
Digitally Built / Humanly Automated, on synthetic image, workflows, infrastructures and analog-digital interactions; TRIGGER PLANTING (2.0), a public installation on the changing landscapes of reproductive healthcare; Climate Justice WTF, a dual-screen film essay that pairs protests at global climate summits and legal arguments from a youth climate lawsuit; and WBYA? (Who Builds Your Architecture?), an advocacy project that addresses challenges faced by construction workers on architectural sites; among other projects that have been exhibited widely, and internationally. 

She collaborates with artists, designers, scientists, academics, students, and human rights and nonprofit organizations. Forming individual project-based collaborations, her work integrates interdisciplinary knowledge, advocacy work, diverse visual formats, and media and technologies. 
Her research-based architectural practice is based on a longstanding partnership and an ongoing exchange of ideas with Reinhold Martin. Their collaborative work, co-authored as Martin / Baxi Architects, is excerpted in two books: Multi-National City: Architectural Itineraries and Entropia. 

She teaches design studios and environmental visualizations seminars, as Professor of Professional Practice in Architecture, at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she also serves as
Faculty Director, Movement Lab, an experimental art, performance and technology lab.  

She was born in New Delhi. She votes in New York.

For more information: please reach out on her direct email: kbaxi(at)kbaxi(dot)net​

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