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Welcome to join our AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee Meeting – “Architecture Practice – Global South to the Global North”, presented by Aurgho Jyoti, AIA, founder of AUR – Architecture Urbanism Research, and Alexander Loyer Hughes, AIA, co-founder of KURV Architecture, at AIA New York Center for Architecture.
This is a career talk from immigrant architects’ perspective, sharing insights of the way that shaped their career from India and Chile to New York, how their international background became their superpower to grow and thrive, and ultimately start their own practice and make success, from global south to the global north.
Aurgho Jyoti, AIA is founder of AUR – Architecture Urbanism Research. AUR, और in Hindi, signifies the “other” and signals a “prompt.” AUR as a practice is invested in providing a voice for the “other.” Architecture is seen as a responsibility and the studio uses history as a tool to address social relevance, cultural significance, and environmental resilience. They are interested in architecture that crafts histories of the future thoughtfully excavating histories of the past. The work is embedded in narratives of cultural continuity, social equity, and material specificity. AUR is an international architecture firm with a focus on social and cultural projects. It was founded in 2019 by Aurgho Jyoti and currently operates out of New York and New Delhi. Jyoti previously worked as a Project Lead and Senior Architect for SOM, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Gehry Technologies, Studio Fuksas, and 3Gatti Architecture Studio. He is a licensed architect in the US and India. He holds an M.Des in Architecture and Technology from Harvard and an M.Arch-II in Architecture and Urbanism from Cornell as a Tata Scholar. He has conducted research on housing and materials at MIT Media Lab and Harvard. He holds a B.Arch with distinction from SPA, New Delhi.
Alex Loyer Hughes, AIA is a co-founder of Kurv Architecture. Over his 25-year career he has made success in New York City, including high-rise, international hospitality, commercial retail, high-end residential, conversions, interior and industrial design. He led client and investor relationships, overseeing project execution, and was experienced in NYC ULURP, NYC Board of Standards and Appeals, NYC Department of Buildings, NYC Landmarks and Preservation Commission procedure. Prior to founding Kurv Architecture with partner Karim Rashid, Alex was Director of Karim Interior Design Studio, Retail Architect at Ralph Lauren and Peter Marino Architect. He also served as a visiting critic at the University of Pennsylvania, Parsons New School for Design, as student mentor at Columbia GSAPP, and teaches architecture studio at New York Polytechnic Institute. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from Universidad Finis Terra in Santiago, Chile, a Diploma in Digital Design from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in the City of New York.
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AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee
