Maya Alam

Maya Alam is an architect and educator of Indian and German descent. She focuses on the entanglements of space and visuality and their relationship to constructs of power. Aiming to negotiate ideas of multivalent identities, she utilizes imaging technologies to explore forms of engagement which permit more than one viewpoint.

Alam holds the title of Dipl. Ing. from the Peter Behrens School of Arts, Düsseldorf/Germany, and a Master of Architecture with Distinction from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles/US, where she was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Certificate and a Best Thesis Award.

She is the recipient of the 2022 Residency at the Dekoloniale Berlin/Germany and was the inaugural recipient of the 2016‒2017 Harry der Boghosian Fellowship. She has worked in Germany, India, Switzerland, China, Italy, and the United States. She has taught architecture design at several US institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

Alam is one of the founding partners of A/P practice, a transdisciplinary collaborative that experiments with materials and contemporary surveying technologies to recalibrate our agency across physical and digital spaces. Its work has been exhibited most recently at Yale University, New Haven/US (2021), at the University of Kent, Canterbury/United Kingdom (2019), at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C./US (2019) and the A+D Museum, Los Angeles/US (2018, 2021).