Avaneesh Nataraja, is a licensed Indian architect, currently pursuing Masters of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, with research interests to study the architecture of public urban spaces that respond to social, cultural, political, and ecological factors specific to each context, through interdisciplinary research. He believes in architecture that is aware of the past, rooted to the present and tries to be relevant in the future. He is trained to design, detail, execute and analyse built environments, furniture and graphics, while driven by curiosity and innovation to make each day better than the previous, through design.