Post-Pro M.Arch, Princeton University; M.A. Architektur, Berlin University of the Arts (UdK); B.A., UC Berkeley
Pavan Vadgama is an architect based in Berlin and New York, with over eight years of professional experience in Berlin across housing collectives, adaptive reuse, and educational spaces. His practice explores material politics, built heritage, and multispecies urbanism through design, writing, and exhibition.
His research examines how architecture mediates relations between human and non-human actors within the residual landscapes of contemporary cities.
Vadgama holds a Post-Professional Master of Architecture from Princeton University, where he received the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize and the School of Architecture History and Theory Prize, and was awarded the Howard Crosby Butler Travel Fellowship for field research on water systems and urban cowsheds in Ahmedabad, India. He previously earned an M.A. in Architecture from the Universität der Künste Berlin, where he studied under Jean-Philippe Vassal, and a B.A. in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley.
His recent work includes the traveling installation Holy Cow, Stray Cow! currently at the Porto Design Biennale 2025–26 and a paper on the collaterals of mobility infrastructure presented at the Passages Conference at Politecnico di Milano (DAStU). His writing has appeared in Pidgin and Protocol, among other venues.
