Falguni is an architect and urban designer whose work explores how public space, infrastructure, and cultural memory shape resilient and inclusive urban environments. Growing up and practicing in India before moving to the U.S. exposed her to cities shaped by density, layered histories, environmental pressures, and vibrant public life that continue to inform her understanding of how cities evolve, adapt, and endure.At Pratt Institute, she explored adaptive civic landscapes, flood-responsive urban systems, and spaces that connect environmental performance with everyday life.
Before joining Asakura Robinson, she worked on residential, institutional, waterfront, and public-sector projects in Mumbai, contributing to design development, coordination, and implementation workflows.Her work has also extended into bio-integrated and systems-based design through collaborative research connected to Columbia University’s Dietrich Lab, leading to recognition through the Biodesign Challenge and features by ArchDaily and the United Nations Climate Technology Centre & Network.Across all scales of work, she is interested in creating context-sensitive environments that strengthen relationships between people, infrastructure, ecology, and the evolving life of cities, approaching urbanism not as a fixed object, but as a living system shaped through care, participation, memory, and change.
Where do you get your design inspiration from?
From cities themselves, their rhythms, infrastructures, rituals, contradictions, and the everyday ways people adapt space over time.
If you could work on a project anywhere in the world where would it be?
Mumbai and New York continue to shape me deeply, but I would love to work on climate-resilient public infrastructure projects across coastal and rapidly growing cities globally.
What project are you most proud of?
Urban Altar, a thesis project exploring how public infrastructure, memory, flood resilience, and cultural rituals can coexist within everyday urban life.