Aniket Shahane

Aniket Shahane is founder and principal at Office of Architecture (OA), a Brooklyn-based architecture practice. Projects by OA have been published widely in print and online journals including Architectural Record, The New York Times, Dezeen, Wallpaper, The Architect’s Newspaper and Dwell. The work of OA has has been recognized in a variety of awards programs including nominations for the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Architects and Dezeen’s ‘Emerging Architect of the Year’ Award; The Architect’s Newspaper’s ‘Twenty to Watch’ List; as a finalist for the NYC x Design Awards. Prior to establishing his own practice, Shahane trained as a designer in a number of architectural offices in New York, Paris, and Barcelona, including the studio of Enric Miralles / Benedetta Tagliabue.

At Yale, Shahane serves as Senior Design Critic and teaches design studios in the M.Arch 1 program. He has also taught seminars and studios in the M.Arch 2 program. In 2024, he was selected by Yale’s graduating students to receive the Professor King-lui Wu Teaching Award – a prize “awarded each year to a faculty member who combines architectural practice with outstanding teaching”. In addition to Yale, he taught previously as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Wentworth Institute of Technology and has been a guest juror at a number of universities across the country including California College of Arts, Washington University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Arkansas, Columbia University, University of Texas at Austin, and Kent State University. Shahane received a B.Arch. from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.Arch. from Yale University where he was awarded the Enid Storm Dwyer Scholarship and the Edward Parsons Medal.