Radhya is a South Asian architect who exists at the intersections of being an urbanist, and a poet. As a student of Historic Preservation at Pratt Institute, her passion lies in understanding the connection between preserving the built environment and conserving ecology. She is a Taconic Fellow at Pratt Institute conducting history and heritage research work for the Jewel Streets Project and is part of the Spatial Analysis Visualization Initiative (SAVI). Her research delves into how preserving the past can help communities envision solutions for the future, particularly in the context of port cities like the city where she is from, Karachi, and her current home New York City.

As an aspiring polymath, her undergraduate degree in Architecture continues to shape her academic and professional journey. In Radhya’s creative and academic work, she employs a multi-layered cartography approach to understand the cities where she has lived. This method allows her to identify intersections and points of convergence across a diverse range of experiences, in an effort to celebrate diversity and promote pluralism in the built and lived environments. Outside of the studio Radhya can be found capturing the beauty of urban nature through photography and drawing, from the returning birds and butterflies in industrial environments to the changing seasons of foliage in the city in an attempt to celebrate diversity and encourage pluralism. A key pursuit for her is to find the best biryani in New York city.