Kadambari Baxi is an architect and educator based in New York. Her current architecture and media practice integrates research, art, design and activism to foster public pedagogy on vital socio-political issues. Recent projects on reproductive healthcare, fair labor on architectural construction sites, climate justice, and transboundary air pollution were featured in exhibitions internationally. She is a Professor of Practice in architecture at Barnard + Columbia Architecture, Barnard College, Columbia University, and was recently appointed as Faculty Director, Movement Lab.

Her other initiatives include co-founding the advocacy group WBYA? (Who Builds Your Architecture?). Working often with other artists, designers, scientists, human rights organizations, and students, she forms project-based collaborations. 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 (Actar, Spain, 2007) and Entropia (Black Dog Publishing, London, 2001).

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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