Mayrah Udvardi, Aia, Ncarb, Leed Ap Email & Phone Number

Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Greater Boston Area

My project work with MASS has ranged in scale from memorials (Gun Violence Memorial Project, UTTC Japanese Internment Memorial) to community centers (IDJC Living Resource Center, Oasis@Bartlett, Barelas Commissary Kitchen), to masterplanning (Plan: Mattapan, Franklin Park Action Plan, Stone Barns Center, Minneapolis College of Art and Design).

Greater New York City Area

I provided project-specific design, research, and teaching assistance to GSAPP and Barnard faculty, including Ziad Jamaleddine, Ralph Ghoche, Ignacio Galan, Reinhold Martin, and Daisy Ames

Greater New York City Area

Maintained the fabrication spaces at Columbia GSAPP, monitored and supported students in fabrication projects, and advanced the development of shop services.

Santa Fe, New Mexico Area

Project managed a building systems analysis report for Abiquiu Elementary School, a locker room remodel for a community center, and a daycare center remodel; drafting for remodeling projects for the Rio Rancho School District and private residences in Santa Fe, NM.

Santa Fe, New Mexico Area

The Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative (SNCC) focuses on culturally and environmentally sustainable development with American Indian, First Nations, and Indigenous communities. Through planning, architectural design, technical assistance and research, our services help tribal communities gain self-sufficiency, improve their impacts on the natural world, and develop healthy, green, culturally-appropriate communities.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Documented and supported the process of Empower Shack, a multi-partner, multi- stakeholder shack upgrading project. Lived in a shack in Khayelitsha township, recording and analyzing lives and spaces to inform prototype design, documented all community meetings, spent a month in the Eastern Cape studying and drawing the lives people leave when they migrate to the city.

Wellesley, Mass.

Learned about funding and developing design capacity for sustainable affordable housing in the United States. Developed and maintained blog to share best practices from Rose Fellowship, wrote case studies, created content for website, contributed to grant writing, designed presentations and print materials.

Wellesley College

Promoted recycling and implemented composting program through education & outreach to students and faculty; designed outreach material including short videos, brochures, curriculum; developed college’s sustainable building guidelines; strategic planning for Wellesley’s campus sustainability plan.

Bangalore, India

Organized and managed summer programs and events, created outreach material and media, designed and taught lessons on ‘Conscious Consumption’ at 12 schools, taught students at Vedike Eco-Residential School, designed, fundraised for and managed construction of Vedike amphitheater, supported building of village home, established relationships with schools & colleges, designed Vedike campus site plan.

Corvallis Oregon

Helped coordinate an EPA-funded summer program; trained 20 interns and volunteers to support neighborhoods in decreasing personal energy consumption. Responsibilities included website development, hiring and training, public speaking, facilitation, fundraising, lobbying local decision-makers, canvassing neighborhoods, strategic planning, data entry & analysis, and planning events for up to 200 people.

Corvallis, Oregon

Assisted in the construction of a green home; learned basic carpentry, detailing, and landscaping trades; improved knowledge of building systems and green design.

Corvallis, Oregon

Researched ways to adhere diatoms in uniform films to glass surfaces. Project contributed to creating photosynthesizing photovoltaic cells for clean energy generation.

Master Of Architecture (M.Arch.), Architecture

Distinctions: Kinne Traveling Prize, Buell Center Paris Prize, CFA Award, HP Rate: 84% Portfolio: “(Be)longing” Leadership: GSAPPXx+.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Architecture And Environmental Studies

Distinctions: Magna Cum Laude & Phi Beta Kappa National Honors Society GPA: 3.77/4.00 Honors Thesis: “Bangalore: Urban Development &.

Architecture

Coursework at MIT: Arch. Design Studio 1; Water, Landscape & Urban Design Studio

Architecture

Advanced Hindi Language

Valedictorian