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{{short description|Indian architect}}{{Infobox architect
| name = Aarati Kanekar
| alma_mater = [[Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology University|CEPT University]], [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], [[Georgia Institute of Technology]]
| occupation = Architect, Academic, Researcher
| notable_works = ''Architecture’s Pre-texts: Spaces of Translation''
}}

'''Aarati Kanekar''' is an Indian academic, writer, researcher, and architect.

==Biography==
Aarati Kanekar graduated in Architecture at the "Center for Environmental Planning and Technology" in [[Ahmedabad]] in India in 1989, she completed her graduate studies from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 1992, and holds a Ph.D. from [[Georgia Institute of Technology]] in [[Atlanta]], currently teaches architectural theory and design at [[University of Cincinnati]].<ref>[https://daap.uc.edu/academics/said/said_directory.html?eid=kanekaa&thecomp=uceprof site of the University of Cincinnati]</ref>
Her research focuses on the themes of the design formulation, in particular representation and spatial construction of meaning and [[Morphology(architecture and engineering)|morphological studies]] in [[architecture]].
This research is reflected in her publications on topics ranging from the issues of representation in the work of [[Lebbeus Woods]], to [[Danteum]] of [[Giuseppe Terragni]] and translations of the [[Divine Comedy]] through media, to spatiality in the novels of [[Italo Calvino]] and [[game design]].<ref>In particular, there is a study of her on the design of constructive / three-dimensional games based on the literary texts of Italo Calvino [[If on a winter's night a traveler]] and [[Invisible Cities]] [http://www.spacesyntax.net/symposia-archive/SSS4/fullpapers/25Kanekarpaper.pdf A. Kanekar, ''Designing games:Structure, playability and intelligibility'', Università di Cincinnati]</ref>

Kanekar worked at the architect's studio [[Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi]] in India on large institutional projects and later collaborated with '' The National Institute of Design (NID) '' in [[Ahmedabad]] on conservation projects and tourism development in South India.
She has also worked on post-war reconstruction and conservation projects in [[Mostar]] in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]].

== Works ==
=== Articles ===
Her writings are published in various journals, including ''[[The Journal of Architecture]]'', ''[[Perspecta (journal)|Perspecta]]'', ''[[Philosophica]]'', and ''[[Domus (magazine)|Domus]]''.
*''Between Drawing and Building'', The Journal of Architecture, volume 15, issue 6 December 2010 (RIBA & Routledge) pp. 771–794.
*''From Building to Poem and Back: The Danteum as a Study in the Projection of Meaning Across Symbolic Forms'' in The Journal of Architecture, volume 10, issue 2 April 2005 (RIBA & Routledge) pp. 135–159.
*''Diagram and Metaphor in Design: The Divine Comedy as a Spatial Model'', in Special Issue of the Journal PHILOSOPHICA 2002:
*''Diagrams and the Anthropology of Space'', edited by Kenneth J. Knoespel, volume 69 (1) 2002 Vakgroep Wijsbegeerte en Moraalwetenschap (Ghent University, Belgium) pp. 37–58.
*''Metaphor in Morphic Language''. Proceedings of the 3rd International Space Syntax Symposium, Atlanta, 2001. pp. 22.1-22.16.
*''Shaping of Settlements: Temporal Events and Spatial Form in South Indian Temple Cities''. Proceedings of the ACSA International Conference 2000, Hong Kong. pp. 293–299.

=== Books and publications ===
* ''Architecture’s Pre-texts: Spaces of Translation'', [[Routledge]], [[London]], 2015 {{ISBN|9781315749723}}
* ''Fictional sites of architecture/architectural sites of fiction'', in [[Sophia Psarra]], ''The Production Sites of Architecture'', Routledge, 2019, eBook {{ISBN|9780203712702}}

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