Dr Venugopal Maddipati is an architectural historian and graphic artist. He holds an MA and a PhD in Art History from the University of Minnesota. He has been teaching in the MDes programme in Social Design at Ambedkar University, Delhi, and at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, where he received his bachelor’s degree in architecture in 2001. He has been a fellow at CSDS, Nehru Memorial Library, and, more recently, at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin.

As a writer and researcher, he focuses on geological thinking and ecological histories. His publications include the book Water Histories of South Asia: The Materiality of Liquescence (co-edited with Dr Sugata Ray, University of California, Berkeley, Routledge, 2019), Gandhi and Architecture: A Time for Low-Cost Housing (Routledge, 2020), and essays in journals and books such as South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Sarai Reader 09, Simon Starling/Superflex: Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests, and LA, Journal of Landscape Architecture. He is currently writing a book on ecological aesthetics and heat in South Asia.