Amrita Vinod

Amrita Vinod is an architect and student of Architecture/Art History, Theory and Philosophy. Before joining HAA at the University of Pittsburgh in 2023, she completed master’s in architecture history and theory from the University of Washington, Seattle and a 5-year bachelor’s degree in architecture (B. Arch) from Kerala University, India. She has worked as an architectural designer, curator, educator, volunteer, and apprentice since 2014. Her work and their details are listed on her website.

Amrita focuses on the histories of human aspects of architecture and landscape confluence in South India before European Colonization— specifically, looking into complex relations between self (personhood) and the world building process. Her current research is on Sarpa Kavu (meaning ‘abode of snakes’) of Kerala, focusing on the history of the relationships among human beings, non-human agents and landscapes. She is also interested in historiographies and how histories are made or written because she believes that it is a tool to decolonize the way we think and create the world around us.