Benjamin Akhavan

Benjamin (Benjy) Akhavan is a Ph.D. student in the History and Theory of Architecture at Yale University. His current research examines how energy politics intersect with domesticity to enforce gender stereotypes through gardening. He has taught at Columbia GSAPP, The City College of New York, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and—most recently as Assistant Professor—at Morgan State University. Benjy is the founder of FOAWM, an interdisciplinary design firm working between the scale of energy, architecture, and urbanism. His design and written work have been presented through Baltimore Artscape, Citygroup, Cambridge University Press Materials Research Society Proceedings, Mashrabiya, New York Review of Architecture, and MIT Thresholds.

Research Area Keywords
Energy Politics, Planning, Domesticity, Landscape