Neeraj Bhatia is an architect and
urban designer from Toronto. His work resides at the intersection of politics,
infrastructure, and urbanism. Bhatia is a codirector of InfraNet Lab, a nonprofit research collective probing the spatial byproducts
of contemporary resource logistics, and the founder of The Open Workshop, a design office examining the project of plurality. Further, he
is the research director of The Petropolis of Tomorrow, which explores the relationship
between urbanism and resource extraction. He has worked for Eisenman
Architects, Coop Himmelblau, Bruce Mau Design, OMA, Lateral Office, and ORG. Bhatia has previously taught at Cornell University, Rice
University, The University of Toronto, The University of Waterloo, and Ohio
State University. His research has been published in Volume/Archis, Thresholds, Footprint, Domus,
Onsite Review, Field Journal, and Yale Perspecta. He is coeditor of The Petropolis of Tomorrow (with
Mary Casper, Actar, 2013); Bracket
[Goes Soft] (with Lola Sheppard, Actar, 2013); Arium: Weather + Architecture
(with Jürgen Mayer H., Hatje Cantz Publishing, 2009); and coauthor of Pamphlet Architecture 30: Coupling --
Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism (with InfraNet Lab,
Princeton Architectural Press, 2010). Bhatia has received Graham Foundation
grants, The Lawrence B. Anderson Award, Shell Center for Sustainability Grant,
Odebrecht first-prize award for sustainability, ACSA Faculty Design Award, and
the Thesis Prize (MIT, 2007; University of Waterloo, 2005). Bhatia received his
master's degree in architecture and urban design from MIT, where he was
studying on a Fulbright Fellowship. Prior to that, he attended the University
of Waterloo, where he earned his bachelor of environmental studies and his
bachelor of architecture. He is an NCARB-registered licensed architect.
Website: www.theopenworkshop.ca
