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Grounding Culture in Geologic Time
Meghalayan Age Experience Gallery · Shillong, Meghalaya
Returning a City to Its Coastline
Dumas Sea Face · Surat, Gujarat
Rebuilding a City Around Its River
Karimnagar Riverfront · Telangana, India
Weaving New Housing to Support Local Artists
Hancock Commons · Austin, Texas
Designing Grounds for a Community's Healing
Altadena Healing Garden · Altadena, California
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Designing at the scale of cities with the precision of architecture.

Urban designer and architect working across masterplans, corridors and waterfronts, from a neuro-urban thesis on post-fire recovery in Altadena to district-scale projects under construction across India.

The work moves between scales: reading a city's memory and its systems, then resolving them into streets, blocks and public rooms people actually want to be in.

01 · Academic

Research & Studio

UC Berkeley MUD · Competitions
Thesis
From Ashes to Belonging

From Ashes to Belonging

Altadena, California
Neuro-Urbanism · 2026
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The Seam
The Seam
Austin, Texas · ULI Hines
Gateway to Heart
Gateway to Heart
Cloverdale, CA · Studio
(Signs of) LIFE
(Signs of) LIFE
Richmond Parkway, CA · Studio
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02 · Professional

Built & In Construction

INI Design Studio
Under Construction
Ambaji Shakti Corridor

Ambaji Shakti Corridor

Gujarat, India
2.5 km Corridor · Lead Designer
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Dharoi Dam Masterplan
Dharoi Dam Masterplan
Gujarat, India · 1,500 acres
Dumas Sea Face
Dumas Sea Face
Surat, Gujarat · Completed
Karimnagar Riverfront
Karimnagar Riverfront
Telangana, India · 10 km Edge
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Vedant Acharya
Vedant Acharya
Assoc.
AIA
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About Me

Vedant
Acharya

Cities, Memory, Belonging

Urban designer and architect trained across India and the United States. I hold a Master of Urban Design from UC Berkeley and have led district-scale masterplans, pilgrimage corridors and waterfront regeneration projects at INI Design Studio, several now under construction.

My thesis, From Ashes to Belonging, reads post-fire Altadena through a neuro-urban lens: how streets, thresholds and shared ground shape the nervous system of a community trying to return.

Recipient of the 2026 AIA California Urban Design Student Merit Award, and 1st place in ULI's Urban Plan “Got Talent.” Currently based in Berkeley, California, open to work across the USA and India.
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vedant.acharya@berkeley.edu