College of Fine Arts

Sarosh Anklesaria is an architect, educator, and Track Chair of the Master of Architecture (M.Arch) program. He joined Carnegie Mellon Architecture as the T. David Fitz-Gibbon Professor of Architecture in 2020 and later served as Associate Teaching Professor. In 2026, he was appointed Associate Professor. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon University, Anklesaria was a critic at the Yale School of Architecture. He has also taught architecture at Cornell University, Syracuse University, The Pratt Institute, The School of Architecture at Taliesin, Indus Valley School of Art, and CEPT University. Sarosh is interested in an expansive notion of architectural agency that synthesizes architecture's formal and tectonic capacities with questions of socio-ecological pertinence. His current design research considers agency across various scales and geographies to include investigations into the entanglements between justice, ecology, worldmaking and architecture. His recent work engages the afterlives of modernism in South Asia and the architectures of just transitions in post- and deindustrializing contexts. He is the coeditor of "Building and Unbuilding the City Museum: From Le Corbusier to Ahmedabad" (Routledge, 2026). The book brings local and international perspectives to questions of contemporary import — civic ambition and democracy, care and maintenance, and design as social change — with Sanskar Kendra, Le Corbusier's underrecognized museum in Ahmedabad, as its protagonist.

Sarosh is the recipient of the 2025 Henry Hornbostel Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest honor recognizing a teacher at the College of Fine Arts. His work has been supported by the Richard Rogers Fellowship from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Art Omi Residency and the Taliesin Fellowship, and was published in the Venice Biennale "How will we live together"(2021). 

Sarosh has worked extensively as a practicing architect with Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York City) on The Shed, a landmark mobile facility for the visual and performing arts; with Herzog & de Meuron (Basel) on the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art; and with Sangath, the office of B.V. Doshi (Ahmedabad). In addition to his own independent architecture practice, Studio Sarosh Anklesaria, he also co-founded Anthill Design, a collaborative architecture firm based in India.

Sarosh's writing, design projects, and research have been published in a variety of media including "The Journal of Architecture and Education" (JAE), "The Plan Journal," "Strelka Magazine," "The Architectural Review," "Domus," "Architect's Newspaper" and "Design Today." He has also juried on the architecture and design grants panel for the NY State Council of the Arts. He is co-editor, with Stefan Gruber and Tuliza Sindi, of "Making Alive! Reworlding Cities," a forthcoming publication supported by a 2026 Graham Foundation institutional grant awarded to Carnegie Mellon University's Remaking Cities Institute. Sarosh holds a diploma in architecture from CEPT University, Ahmedabad, and a post-professional Master of Architecture from Cornell University.

I am the Associate Dean of Carnegie Mellon University's Integrative Design, Arts, and Technology (IDeATe) program and its Program Lead in Sustainability. I'm also an affiliated faculty member at Carnegie Mellon Architecture and the Department of History

I want an intersection of design, humanities, and theory to generate richer human interactions, with technology and without. I have sought out, studied, and contributed explanatory models of interaction that aid understanding of human-to-human and human-with-machine conversations. These models have proved valuable for teaching design, writing code, evolving organizations, and proposing new methods for the design process itself. Framing situations as systems that are animated by social actors leads unavoidably to ethics. I am committed to defining minimal axioms for design that bound ethical and humane interactions.

Peter Scupelli is an Associate Professor of Design, Chair of the Design Studies track, and Director of the Learning Environments Lab in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. Peter’s current research focus is on learning environments, design futures, and zero-carbon transitions. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate-level courses. Peter’s training and career path link architecture, interaction design, and human-computer interaction research. Peter was the Nierenberg Associate Professor of Design from 2019 to 2022 and Visiting Professor in Design at the Politecnico di Milano (2022-2024). He is co-founder of Global Design Futures Network.