Events

• ‘Life After Property’ Solo Exhibition open at Banvard Gallery, Ohio

  November 22, 2023

  

• Neeraj Bhatia lectures at Radical Middle Grounds conference at UT Austin

  November 10, 2023

• Neeraj Bhatia organizes symposium on Relearning Kinship at CCA

  October 24, 2023

• Neeraj Bhatia invited to ‘At Home with the Collective: A Summit on Communal Housing’ at UIC

  October 19-20, 2023

  Organized by Alexander Eisenschmidt, this 2-day summit will gather speakers from around the world, local stakeholders and activists, as well as city officials who have radically rethought established norms of living, models of homeownership, and the formal, programmatic, material, and legal parameters of housing. Our ambition is to generate new knowledge that can confront the current crisis and speak to the potential of collective housing as a productive challenge for architecture.

  

• The Open Workshop part of Archifest Singapore 2023

  September 29, 2023

• Second Edition of ‘New Investigations in Collective Form’ now available

  September 15, 2023

  Published by ARD, the second edition contains three additional projects and five new writing pieces. Available here.

  

• Neeraj Bhatia joins AIA Dallas Unbuilt Awards Jury

  September 7, 2023

• Neeraj Bhatia lectures at Syracuse University, as part of their Domestic Affairs lecture series

  April 5, 2023

• Neeraj Bhatia lectures at University of Michigan, Taubman College

  March 23, 2023

• Neeraj Bhatia and Sergio Lopez-Pineiro discuss ‘Typologies for Big Words’ at Harvard GSD

  March 1, 2023

• Neeraj Bhatia moderates a discussion with Liz Obgu at CCA

  February 2, 2023

• Neeraj Bhatia lectures on “Forming Life in Common” at the Cooper Union

  January 26, 2023

• Neeraj Bhatia lectures to the Landscape Architecture program at Harvard GSD

  January 18, 2023

• Neeraj Bhatia lectures at the University of Oregon on “Collective Form/ Forms of Collectives”

  November, 16, 2022

• Neeraj Bhatia presents “This Land is Your Land” at the Regional Globalism in the Tennessee Valley Conference at UT Knoxville

  November 3, 2022

  

• Neeraj Bhatia selected as an Emerging Talent speaker at the Monterey Design Conference

  October 29, 2022

  

• Neeraj Bhatia moderates ACSA Panel on Equitable Futures

  October 6, 2022

  Panelists included: Bess Williamson, Erin Reilly-Sanders, Aimee Moore, Johnna Keller, Parsons and Elisandra Garcia-Gonzalez

• The Open Workshop and Borderless Studio organize a series of roundtables on Care, Making, Ecology and Solidarity

  September 17, 2022

  Discussions featured: Amanda Williams, Craig Stevenson, Andrea Yarbrough, Lydia Ross, Cosmos Ray, Glenance Green, Ghian Foreman, Bweza Itaag, Erika Allen, and ​Rachel Kaplan

Recognition

Press

• “Neeraj Bhatia and Maya Pryzbylski receive a Graham Foundation Grant for Bracket [On Sharing],” Graham Foundation , 2022.

• “The Open Workshop, Agency & RVTR, and Smout Allen selected for “Regional Globalism in the Tennessee Valley” design-research project,” UTK, 2022.

• “Neeraj Bhatia, Ignacio G. Galen, Karen Kubey selected for RESET: Towards a New Commons exhibition for Aging Against the Machine,” Center for Architecture, New York, 2021.

• “Neeraj Bhatia & Antje Steinmuller collaborate with San Francisco Planning Department and receive Research Grant,” Friends of City Planning, 2019.

• “The Open Workshop receives grant for Courtyard Public Space Design and implementation at the Pacific Felt Factory,” San Francisco Arts Commission, 2018.

• “Neeraj Bhatia & Janette Kim (Urban Works Agency) with collaborators AECOM, IDEO, UCBerkeley, and CMG Landscape receive funding for Resilience By Design research initiative,” Resilient by Design All Bay Challenge, 2017.

• “Neeraj Bhatia & Blake Stevenson receive SPUR Piero N. Patri Fellowship in Urban Design for [Re]Commoning the Frontier: Mitigating Displacement in San Francisco’s Southeast Waterfront,” SPUR, 2016.

• “Neeraj Bhatia receives Research Grant for Housing Atlas of Arctic Construction,” Graham Foundation for the Arts, 2011.

• “Neeraj Bhatia receives Kinder Institute for Urban Research Grant for Petropolis of Tomorrow Research Project,” Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University, 2011.

• “Neeraj Bhatia awarded a Shell Center for Sustainability grant for Floating Frontiers Research Project,” Shell Center for Sustainability at Rice University, 2011.

• “Neeraj Bhatia receives Grant for Bracket 2: Goes Soft,” Graham Foundation for the Arts, 2010.

• “Neeraj Bhatia, Maya Przybylski, Lola Sheppard and Mason White selected as winners for Pamphlet Architecture, on the Issue of Infrastructural Opportunism through COUPLING.,” Princeton Architectural Press, Pamphlet Architecture #30, 2009.

Awards

• “The Open Workshop receives Faculty Design Award Honorable Mention for the Bronzeville Action Coalition,” ACSA, 2023.

• “The Open Workshop receives Faculty Design Award for New Investigations in Collective Form,” ACSA, 2021.

• “The Open Workshop receives Next Progressives Distinction,” ARCHITECT Magazine, 2019.

• “Neeraj Bhatia awarded Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture,” Canada Council for the Arts, 2019.

• “The Open Workshop receives First Prize for Garden of Framed Scenes, Viseu, Portugal,” POLDRA, 2018.

• “Neeraj Bhatia & Antje Steinmuller receives ACSA Housing Design Education Award for Equity through Commoning Domestic Space,” ACSA, 2018.

• “The Open Workshop receives an honorable mention for the Young Architects Award for Malleable Monuments,” Architect’s Newspaper, 2018.

• “The Open Workshop is awarded first place for Dredgescaping Toledo,” LA+Imagination Islands Competition, 2017.

• “The Open Workshop receives First Prize for Scaffoldia,” OurCity Prototyping Competition, 2016.

• “The Open Workshop awarded Architectural League Prize,” The Architectural League NY, 2016.

• “Neeraj Bhatia / The Open Workshop receives Emerging Leaders Award,” Design Futures Council / Design Intelligence, 2016.

• “The Open Workshop & SurfaceDesign, Inc. are finalists in Middle City Passages Competition, Toronto, Canada for The Right of Way is the Right to the City,” Metrolinx / IVAM, 2015.

• “Bracket [Takes Action] awarded a Graham Foundation for the Arts Grant,” 2014.

• “The Open Workshop receives Honorable Mention in Baltic Thermal Pool Park Competition,” Liepaja City Council, 2014.

• “The Open Workshop selected as finalist for Comprehensive Coastal Communities Competition, Far Rockaway, USA for Recon-Figure,” FAR ROC, 2013.

• “The Open Workshop & Lorena Del Rio Architects place as Runners-Up for En-Pointe! entry,” Europan 12, Kagran, Austria, 2013.

• “Neeraj Bhatia (Team Advisor) with Alexander Yuen, Joanna Luo, Weijia Song (Design Team) are First Prize Winners of Oderbrecht Award for Sustainable Development for Petropolis of Tomorrow,” Institute for Sustainability, 2012.

• “Neeraj Bhatia, Maya Przybylski, Mason White receive Honorable Mention and selected for exhibition for Unlocking America’s Center in Life at the Speed of Rail Competition,” Van Alen Institute, 2011.

• “Neeraj Bhatia, Maya Przybylski, Lola Sheppard, Mason White receive Faculty Design Award for Next North,” ACSA, 2011.

• “Neeraj Bhatia receives Lawrence B. Anderson Award for Housing Atlas of Arctic Construction,” MIT, 2010.

• “Neeraj Bhatia awarded Fulbright Fellowship,” MIT, 2006-2007.