Farzana Gandhi

Farzana Gandhi

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Architecture

Campus: New York City

Area(s) of Expertise: Design

Education Credentials: M. Arch

Industry Credentials: AIA, LEED AP

Joined New York Tech: 2007


Farzana Gandhi is a registered architect in New York and a LEED accredited professional. Her architecture practice, Farzana Gandhi Design Studio, focuses on sustainable and socially conscious solutions, both locally and abroad. At New York Tech, she has been teaching introductory, advanced, and thesis-level architecture design studios, research-driven design-build elective courses, and visualization seminars.

Gandhi is most interested in how widespread social impact can be achieved by rethinking the relationship between architecture and its environmental, cultural, and socioeconomic framework. By acting at the intersection of multiple disciplines, a single intervention has potential to act as a catalyst for systemic change. Her community outreach work in places like Dakar, Senegal, and Puerto Rico is driven by inquiry, investigation, and integration. She continues to bring this unique approach to design to the classroom, where her students are invited to tackle multi-layered, real-world problems and collaborate to test new dimensions of practice.



Gandhi and her colleagues were recently featured in an episode of Horizons, a BBC worldwide television show, for their patented, climate-appropriate, disaster-relief roof system. Her work in teaching, research, and practice has been recognized with several awards and has been widely exhibited and published.

Gandhi earned a master's degree in architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. At the University of Pennsylvania, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor of arts in architecture, as well as a bachelor of arts in Spanish with distinction.

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