PRINCIPAL | SOMATIC COLLABORATIVE
Anthony Acciavatti is the inaugural Diana Balmori Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. He is the author of Ganges Water Machine: Designing New India’s Ancient River (2015), which was awarded the J. B. Jackson Book Prize by the Foundation for Landscape Studies in 2016. His forthcoming book, titled Republic of Villages, looks at the history of design and the sciences in South Asia from the 1890s – 1970s. He is a founding partner of Somatic Collaborative, a research and design firm based in NYC, and is a founding director of Manifest Institute, which publishes Manifest: A Journal of the Americas.