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Neena Verma is a practicing architect, teacher and writer based in New York City. Her work queries the limits of the contemporary architectural discourse – culturally, geographically and temporally. Neena is interested in destructuring.

A former attorney, her background adds a criticality to her architectural analyses.  Neena’s work has appeared broadly, most recently in Urban Omnibus, Architectural Research Quarterly and International Journal of Education in Architecture and Design; she is currently writing a book about immigrants finding place.  Her collaborative work has been presented before the Venice Biennale and Buenos Aires Biennale. Her first built work was completed as an architecture graduate student with Tulane’s UrbanBuild program. A recipient of the John William Lawrence Travel Fellowship, she has studied slum architecture in India.  She was an invited participant to the American Institute of Architects Emerging Professionals Summit and the Practice Symposium at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Neena holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Rutgers Law School and Tulane School of Architecture.  She has worked in the architecture offices of KieranTimberlake, Peter Marino, and Studio Mapos. She is currently the Architecture Writing Fellow and an Instructor at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, Part-time Faculty at The School of Constructed Environments at Parsons The New School, and Principal of an eponymous practice that pursues small-scale, forward-thinking architectural works. Her architecture office is a certified Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise in New York City.

www.neenaverma.com

Degrees Held

Bachelor of Arts,  Architecture, University of Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Science in Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Juris Doctor,  Rutgers School of Law, Rutgers University

Masters in Architecture,  School of Architecture, Tulane University