Vishnupriya is an architecture graduate from Anna University in Chennai, India. She is pursuing a dual Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning, and in Urban Design, at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. She also has a summer internship certificate in Advanced Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley.

At Michigan while she pursues her Master’s at UofM, she balances her time between reading, writing, painting, studying, and testing her ideas through independent studies with faculty. Experiences that have shaped and seasoned her include a one-year internship at Studio Mumbai in Mumbai, India, her final year architecture thesis where she designed a library which she “wrote” a great deal about, and her month long summer and winter school program at CEPT University, Ahmedabad. You’ll see her writing or reading away between classes or when she may be caught studying on campus.

I like to write because it helps me think. It also helps me evolve my position given any topic I have to take a stance on. UofM has given me many many honest and encouraging interactions that shape my learning, enthusiasm, and interests on various subjects.

This portfolio / scroll / website is a collection of my defining and most comprehensive works. Of all the things that I do, I love putting together compilations of my work. I’m inspired by kitbashes. Picking things apart and putting them together with all kinds of other objects, into a new type of context that makes sense in absolutely new ways. The Archive of Affinities is really interesting. My love for kitbashes may come from a similar footing. Looking at one’s work from afar and scaling it just right by squinting at it to place it in the larger context against all of one’s other projects is akin to meditation or dancing, in my view. You engage in a complete process to put your work into context for the world at large, at any point in time. There’s so much joy in the long-or-short-hours that go into deliberating what goes next to what, in a composition. It is one form of curating.

I was thrilled when I discovered the term “comprehensivist” as described by Buckminster Fuller when I first read “You belong to the Universe” by Jonathan Keats. It encapsulates what I’ve always believed as being the most valuable to any field one would like to contribute to. To be a comprehensivist, to me, is to recognize that each one of the works we produce have a larger purpose, and we let this aspect come through when we remain absolutely true to our work, from the heart. I try to work this way. My flaw may be that I only know to work this way because I’m a romantic like that!

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this website’s experience so far! If you want to write to me, please scroll below for the address to contact.