Ajmal Aqtash

Founded form-ula, a multidisciplinary design practice that seeks to understand the intersection of art, design, and engineering and its collaborative possibilities to produce culturally rich and high performance architecture for large- and small-scale projects; recipient, 2011 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects; founded core.form-ula, which is the research and development wing of form-ula; extensive background in morphology; Associate Director at the Center for Experimental Structures (CES); worked on several projects for Skidmore, Ownings & Merrill LLP (SOM), within the Design Group, Technical Group, Digital Design Group, and Performative Design Group; toward the end of his tenure at SOM, founded the Advanced Design Group and the Performative Design Group; has been an invited juror at Columbia, UPenn, Pratt, SCI-Arc, and Stevens.

B.Arch., Pratt Institute; M.S., Columbia University.