Draft:Ayesha Ghosh



Ayesha Ghosh is an American architectural designer and researcher and founding member of Archivo Auxiliar, a collective studying electronic music in Mexico City.

Ghosh was the Head of Investigations and Strategic Projects at Tatiana Bilbao Estudio from 2018-2022, focusing on the academic and publication pursuits of the office. There, she led research and development of exhibitions in the Louisiana Museum, Graham Foundation, SFMOMA, Danish Architecture Center, National Gallery of Victoria, in addition to others.

She was a co-editor of the book Two Sides of the Border, and author of texts published in AA files, E Flux and more.

Early life and education
Ghosh grew up in San Diego, California and graduated with a bachelors in Anthropology from UC Berkeley in May 2011 and a masters of Architecture from Columbia University in August 2017 from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Ghosh was a student intern at Young Projects in Brooklyn, NY from January to May of 2013. She spent the summer as a curatorial assistant at Oko Gallery / Alison Gingeras Ltd, in New York City from May to September of 2013. She was an architectural design intern at  L-MOD Studios in New York City from September 2013 to August 2014. She worked as a design intern at Solomonoff Architecture Studio in New York City from May to August of 2015. She also worked at GSAPP Visual Resources Collection in New York City as a curator from May 2015 until August 2017. She worked as a project manager at Tatiana Bilbao Estudio in Mexico City from June 2018 until 2022.

Academia
As a founding member of Archivo Auxiliar, a collective studying electronic music in Mexico City, she captured the development of the city’s underground nightlife community during the COVID-19 pandemic through the counter-archiving project “Cyberstreams.” She has an ongoing art project called “Rave Flags” (2023-Present), in which she creates graphic textiles that create visual anchors during events that often take place in different and abandoned locations.“Rave Flags” is in collaboration with other artists, who upon invitation contribute to a growing library of textiles.

Based in Mexico City, she founded her own practice in 2022. She focuses on creating collective experiences that strengthen community ties, often working in collaboration with other design disciplines. She has current projects in Mexico and New York City. Her projects and research often engage experimental documentation and archival methods.

She has taught at Columbia GSAAP, UC Berkeley CED, Syracuse University and University of Milwaukee SARUP.

Projects

 * “Rave Flags”; Mexico City (2023-Present)
 * "Cyberstreams"; Mexico City (2023)

Awards and recognition

 * urban omnibus flipped city feature (2013)
 * Architecture Association of Cincinnati design.make.display exhibition (2013)

Published works

 * Deborah Berke with co-editors Ayesha Ghosh and Nile Greenberg, Two Sides of the Border (Lars Müller Publishers/Yale School of Architecture, 2020)