Nilay Mistry

Courses taught

LA 257, Advanced Modeling and Fabrication Space, Fall 15

Expertise

Nilay Mistry possesses several years of experience indesign practice and teaching in landscape architecture and urban design in the United States, Africa, and Asia. His ongoing research and transdisciplinary design work explores rooting interventions in public space in readings of cultural identity, urban networks, and landscape flows. Nilay's research on informal settlements and Asian urbanization has been the subject of various publications and design studios, facilitating multiple design/build projects around the world.

Education

MLAUD, Harvard University, 2010

BLA, University of Illinois, 2003

Teaching Experience

Studio Facilitator, Archeworks, Chicago, 2014-present

Instructor and Year 1 Program Coordinator, International Program in Design and Architecture (INDA) at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Thailand, 2010-12

Professional Experience

Project Manager and Designer, site design group ltd., Chicago, 2013-15

Project Manager and Designer, Daniel Weinbach & Partners Ltd., Chicago, 2004-08

Designer, Wolff Clements & Associates Ltd., Chicago, 2003-04

Intern, Browning Day Mullins and Dierdorf, Indianapolis, 2002

Selected Publications, Exhibits, and Recent Research

Research Fellow, Chicago Expander Workshops, 2012-13, Archeworks

Co-organizer, (Un)Anticipated Futures Symposium, 2012, Chulalongkorn University with The New School and University of Buenos Aires

Article, Bangkok: Water and Urbanism, 2011, S.L.U.M. Lab Magazine, Last Round Ecology, Published by Urban-Think Tank and ETH Zurich