Nandini Goel

Nandini is an interdisciplinary designer and M.Arch candidate at MIT SA+P from New Delhi, India, interested in questions of preservation, material (non)extraction, and building technology. 

She completed her B.Arch (Hons) from the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow, where she wrote her final-year research paper, Designing for Informality, exploring urban strategies in the global South through the lens of incrementalism and cultural sustainability. After graduating, Nandini spent 2 years working in London on projects that allowed her to engage with listed building sites, conduct material research explorations, and develop her personal approach to architecture.

She believes that technology is but a fractal of nature (ultra zoomed-in nature / ultra zoomed-out nature can both be distilled into mathematics), and during her time at MIT, she will be expanding her inquiry into this intersection of disciplines. Nandini is currently working on an independent project aimed at the reuse of construction materials.