Saeb Ali Khan is an architect and urban designer at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in San Francisco. His work focuses on environmentally sustainable and context specific planning in Asia and the United States. Supported by the GSD Merit Grant, he graduated from the Master of Architecture in Urban Design program at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). His research lies at the intersection of urbanization and ecology, and has received funding from the Paul M. Heffernan International Travel Award, Penny White Project Fund and the GSD Advanced Research Grant. He served as a Research Assistant to Professor Joan Busquets and Professor Sai Balakrishnan, focused on identifying patterns of urbanization, investigating the political economy of infrastructure and exploring advancements in resilience—questions that shape design and planning pedagogy at the GSD. Saeb has a professional degree in architecture from Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture & Fine Arts University in Hyderabad, India and several years of design experience, most notably with Pritzker Prize Laureate Balkrishna Doshi. More recently, he was a Global Fellow with NACTO—a Bloomberg non-profit in New York City. He has worked on several notable design and planning projects like the Amravati Capital Complex Proposal in Vijaywada, the Indian Institute of Management in Udaipur and an extension to Balkrishna Doshi’s studio, Sangath in Ahmedabad. He also worked on NACTO’s most recent publication, Streets for Kids—a guide aimed at inspiring leaders, informing practitioners, and empowering communities around the world to make cities better for children and their caregivers.

Project:  City of Memories – Mapping and Re-constructing Hyderabad’s Water Network”, Hyderabad's Water Network