Stair to There, Stair to Nowhere / Fall 2024, MIT

Anticipatory Tectonics / Fall 2025, MIT with Imani Bailey

Anticipatory Tectonics / Fall 2025, MIT with Imani Bailey

"Permanence is a Myth / Mythology is Permanent" / Spring 2025, MIT

Vertical Winery / Summer 2020, AA Visiting School Barcelona

Thesaurus of Reversible Operations / Fall 2025, MIT with Imani Bailey

Survey of ASI HQ for National Museum New Delhi / Summer 2019, INTACH

Mapping Movements / Autumn 2018, Mackintosh GSA

All Archives Become Landfills / Fall 2024, MIT

Stair to There, Stair to Nowhere / Fall 2024, MIT

Row Housing / Winter 2020, Mackintosh GSA with Antoni Ruszkiewicz

Stair to There, Stair to Nowhere / Fall 2024, MIT with Christina Cunningham, Linda Qian, and Catherine Yu

Thesaurus of Reversible Operations / Fall 2025, MIT with Imani Bailey

Stair to There, Stair to Nowhere / Fall 2024, MIT

Anticipatory Tectonics / Fall 2025, MIT with Imani Bailey

Thesaurus of Reversible Operations / Fall 2025, MIT with Imani Bailey

Rituals of Eating / Spring 2022, Mackintosh GSA

Anticipatory Tectonics / Fall 2025, MIT with Imani Bailey

Anticipatory Tectonics / Fall 2025, MIT with Imani Bailey

All Archives Become Landfills / Fall 2024, MIT

Thesaurus of Reversible Operations / Fall 2025, MIT with Imani Bailey

Symphony of Play / Spring 2021, Mackintosh GSA

"Permanence is a Myth / Mythology is Permanent" / Spring 2025, MIT

"Permanence is a Myth / Mythology is Permanent" / Spring 2025, MIT

Symphony of Play / Spring 2021, GSA Mackintoh

Rituals of Eating / Spring 2022, Mackintosh GSA

All Archives Become Landfills / Fall 2024, MIT

All Archives Become Landfills / Fall 2024, MIT

Thesaurus of Reversible Operations / Fall 2025, MIT with Imani Bailey

Stair to There, Stair to Nowehere / Fall 2024, MIT

Anticipatory Tectonics / Fall 2025, MIT with Imani Bailey

Symphony of Play / Spring 2021, Mackintosh GSA

Stair to There, Stair to Nowhere / Fall 2024, MIT

3D Printed Earth Vaults / Winter 2025, MIT (Programmable Mud)

Stair to There, Stair to Nowhere / Fall 2024, MIT with Christina Cunningham, Linda Qian, and Catherine Yu

Stair to There, Stair to Nowhere / Fall 2024, MIT with Christina Cunningham, Linda Qian, and Catherine Yu

Balloch Site Analysis / Spring 2021, Mackintosh GSA

3D Printed Earth Vaults / Winter 2025, MIT (Programmable Mud)

Stair to There, Stair to Nowhere / Fall 2024, MIT with Christina Cunningham, Linda Qian, and Catherine Yu

Anticipatory Tectonics / Fall 2025, MIT with Imani Bailey

Symphony of Play / Spring 2021, Mackintosh GSA

3D Printed Earth Vaults / Winter 2025, MIT (Programmable Mud)

Nandini is currently pursuing her M.Arch at MIT.

She completed her B.Arch (Hons) and RIBA Part I at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow, where her culminating research paper explored urban strategies to design for informal architecture in global megacities. This paper eventually became a research proposal that was shortlisted in the top 5 out of 500 entries worldwide for the RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship.

She has previously worked on professional projects relating to cultural heritage, sensory architecture, materials exploration, as well as preservation, in New Delhi, Glasgow, and London. These have included the National Museum in Delhi and the Ganga Restoration project with INTACH, the Ceramophone as part of Clerkenwell Design Week with SAAWorkshop, and an exhibition on the construction industry’s impact on the climate as part of COP26 with Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN). In 2023, she was awarded a full scholarship to attend a research workshop in the Brazilian Amazon with the AA Visting School, an experience that shaped a lot of her current interests.

At present, she is interested in researching the redesign of the materials economy and material non-extractive techniques. Her approach is largely focused on explorations that span across different scales of systems – from the object to the city to the planetary – and deal with memory, temporality, and cultural sustainability. She believes that technology is a fractal of nature and is testing this idea through an independent project that is currently in progress.

ngoel@mit.edu / MIT profile

PUBLICATIONS

︎︎︎ Viewport(al) Fictions, ContraSTS Magazine, MIT