Guest Lecture: Agrarianism with Logan Arja
March 20, 2024
Logman Arja, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University will join ARCH 5384_CDD course on March 20 for a lecture on Agrarianism!
Logan Arja has over a decade of experience working on sustainable design in the U.S. and Sudan. Currently, he is leading efforts to adopt Additive Manufacturing technology in Sub-Saharan Africa with a strategic goal of producing sustainable rural micro-infrastructures.
With a conscious and deliberate intent to help transform local communities in developing countries, the projects he develops leverage architecture, technology, and innovation to offer solutions to some of the world's most pressing issues, i.e., poverty, epidemics, environmental degradation, and civil unrest. As a proponent of interdisciplinary research, teaching, and experience, his work spans different places, ecologies, and approaches mainly in the Global South.
Arja has won numerous awards for his scholarly and creative works, including Ventulett NEXT Generation Fellowship at Georgia Institute of Technology, John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship, and the MasterCard Foundation Scholarship at UC Berkeley, Rondine Cittadella della Pace Fellowship in Italy, and the Fulbright Scholarship at the City University of New York.
