Samarth Vachhrajni
Currently, at the Yale School of Architecture. Candidate in the Master of Environmental Design (MED) program. Research on detention infrastructures in Northeastern India. Participated at the Canadian Center for Architecture, TU Delft, Society of Architectural Historians. Recognized by the Avery Review. Written and edited with Paprika! (Yale School of Architecture), Bnieuws (TU Delft) and Datum (Iowa State University). Engaged in discussions at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. Graduated from the Department of Architecture at Iowa State University. Based in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Linked In Authorizing Violence: Spatial Techniques of Citizenship Politics in Northeast India
Yale School Of Architecture, New Haven, CT
Master of Environmental Design (MED) Thesis Project
Advisors: Prof. Vyjayanthi Rao and Prof. Keller Easterling
Graphic Designer: Kaming Lee
05/06/2025
Paprika! Volume 9, Issue 3 : Abolition in Practice?
Yale School Of Architecture, New Haven, CT
Link: Abolition in Practice
Coordinating Editors: Izzy Kornblatt, Umut Guney, Anna Korneeva, Emma Sherefkin and Sebastian Beaghen
Issue Editors: Alfonse Chiu, Alberto Martinez Garcia, Austin Ehrhardt, Emily Nelms and Samarth Vachhrajani (MED Working Group)
Graphic Designers: Lobbin Liu and Junyan Hu
Website: Paprika!
12/01/2023
Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory 2023
TU Delft, Netherlands
Conference convened by Dr. Janina Gosseye, Dr. Tom Avermaete and Mathew Heins. Panel Moderated by Prof. Jiaxiu Cai (Chinese University of HongKong)
Paper presented: From Scarce Space to Cleansed Space: Maping Irregular Histories of Mumbai.
Panel members: F. Ikbal Polat and Pelin Yoncaci Arslan (Middle East Technical University), Radu George Tirca (University of Architecture and Urban Planning Ion Mincu Bucharest), Samarth Vachhrajani (Yale University), Sim Hinman Wan (University of Hong Kong) and Rana Habibi (Breda University).
Website: SUDTH
11/01/2023
Society of Architectural Historians Student Symposium (North East Chapter)
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Conference convened by NESAH. Panel moderated by Prof. Diana Martinez (Tufts University, History of Art and Architecture)
Paper presented: The Detention Camp: Delivering Violence With Effective Governance.
Panel members: Sarah Moses (Harvard GSD), Lola Anaya (Smith College) and Samarth Vachhrajani (Yale School of Architecture)
Website - NESAH
04/08/2023
Canadian Center For Architecture - How To: Do No Harm
Montreal, Canada
Link: How to: do no harm
How To: do no harm is a set of conflicted diaries that explores the different harms in the architecture profession. It is a part of curated series at the Canadian center for Architecture called ‘How To.’
Curators - Lev Bratishenko (CCA), Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - EPFL)
Participants -
Amélie de Bonnières (Cape Town), Sophie Weston Chien (Cambridge), Marianna Janowicz (London), Swati Janu (Delhi), Mariana Meneguetti (Rio de Janeiro), Bailey Morgan Brown Mitchell (Stillwater), Loránd Mittay (Berlin), Samarth Vachhrajani (New Haven)
Website - Canadian Center for Architecture
08/29/2022 - 09/16/2022
Bnieuws 55/03 - Where?
Link: Bnieuws 55/03
Bnieuws is a student run publication from the architecture department at TU Delft, in the Netherlands. We were invited to write a collaborative piece on their theme ‘Where?’ Mae Murphy wrote on collective, Arden Stapella wrote on beauty and Samarth Vachhrajani wrote on care / love.
Where is..
By Mae Murphy, Arden Stapella, Samarth Vachhrajani
Website - Bnieuws
02/15/2022
DATUM ISSUE 13 - COLLECTIVE
Link: No.13 Collective
Datum no. 13 - COLLECTIVE explores the importance of being collective and solidarity in the architecture practice, especially in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The journal is an index of collective work, and an attempt at forming a ‘Datum collective’, in order to build power, within an exploitative industry.
Editorial Statement by Samarth Vachhrajani
Website - Datum Collective
04/28/2022
DATUM ISSUE 12 - CARE
Link: No.12 Care
Datum no. 12 CARE looks at how might thinking with care look like, and understanding care as the power that has the potential to turn radical into reality. We engaged in reading, asking, writing, and reflecting, as we participate in the pressure of our discipline that is built against the idea of care.
Editorial Statement by Brenna Fransen, Mae Murphy & Samarth Vachhrajani
Caring for the (Non) Innocent by Samarth Vachhrajani (essay)
Website - Datum Collective
08/10/2021
DATUM ISSUE 11 - END
Link: No.11 End
Datum no. 11 - END seeks to look inward in order to understand the condition of designing as a student-before-climate change. It seeks to explore the unique nostalgia designers experience for futures, for which we are tasked to design.
An Anthology of Infrastructural Failures by
Samarth Vachhrajani (essay)
Website - Datum Collective
05/05/2019