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Neha Chopra
A fifth-year architecture student pursuing a minor in Architectural Design Fabrication, from Hyderabad, India. With a growing interest in making and sustainability, I’m passionate about woodworking, designbuild practices, and vernacular architecture.
Education/Learning
Carnegie Mellon University
MAY 2025
SEP 2024
FEB 2025
JUN 2023
JUL 2023
SEP 2023
NOV 2023
MAY 2022
JUN 2022
Bachelor of Architecture
Majoring in Architecture with a minor in Architectural Design Fabrication
Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura
Semester Abroad
Spent a semester at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain taking architecture studio and intensive design classes.
Auroville Earth Institute
Natural Building Materials Construction Training
Trained for the production, use, and design of earthen or natural building materials including CSEB (Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks), Rammed Earth, Earthcrete, etc. developed by AVEI. Training included lectures, drafting, design, simulations, soil-testing, practical masonry, etc
Pittsburgh Glass Center
Attended a semester long Glassblowing course for credit.
University of Alaska, Anchorage Welding Course
Relevant Experience
JAN 2025
MAY 2025
JUL 2024
AUG 2024
MAY 2023
SEP 2023
MAY 2022
AUG 2022
AUG 2021
Present
Carnegie Mellon Architecture
Teaching Fellow
Yangnar Studio
Attended a five-week long introductory Welding course for transfer credit, covering MIG, SMAW, GMAW, and TIG welding techniques.
Architecture and Fabrication Intern
Art Brute (Collaboration) Project Architect
Co-teaching Second Year Architecture Studio along with Professor Andrew Stone to a group of 16 students. The studio emphasizes design beyond the visual, focusing on full-scale engagement and meaningful relationships with the people who inhabit our spaces. Responsibilities include designing the course, weekly critiques, admin, and teaching with a focus on fabrication
Assisted architects and principals with conceptual design, model-making, site surveys, construction, technical drawings, and furniture design on-site in Chiang Mai, Thailand
William Merriman Architects
Mentor other architecture students at the School of Architecture Wood Shop during fabrication classes, monitor the activity in the shop to ensure safety, and assist with carpentry projects and machine upkeep at the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture Wood Shop. +1 412-933-9198
Worked along with a Design studio from Auroville, India, on the reconstruction of a residential backyard, from conceptualization to execution, designing, material sourcing, and overseeing the day-to-day construction. Managed project timelines, budgets, and resource allocation, achieving on-time completion within allocated budgets.
Architecture Intern
Assisted Principal architect at a small scale high-end residential architecture firm in Anchorage, Alaska; rendering, drafting, site surveying, BIM modelling, 3D printing, etc. Primarily worked on three housing projects focusing on conceptual and design development phases.
Architecture Wood Shop
Glassblowing Course Shop Monitor
Leadership and Accolades
Dean’s List
Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts
Stewart L. Brown Memorial Scholarship Award
AIA Pgh Award Winner
Recipient of the Spring 2024 Stewart L. Brown Memorial Scholarship, issued by the Pittsburgh chapter of the AIA, a $10,000 award that supports a Carnegie Mellon Architecture student in the fourth year of the Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) program. The scholarship recognizes professional promise in terms of attitudes and scholastic achievement. It is awarded each year to a student interested in pursuing professional practice after graduation. Used the funds from the awards towards spending a summer interning at Yangnar Studio, in Chiang Mai, Thailand and exploring the culture of architecture and making in the Northern region of the country.
Architectural Crafts Collective
Founder
and Co-President
Founded the first architectural fabrication club at Carnegie Mellon funded by the School of Architecture aimed at increasing knowledge of craft by organizing workshops and trips, with over 250 members.
NOMA MAPS Spring 2023
Scholarship Recipient
Recipient of the Minority Architects of Pittsburgh Scholarship (MAPS) 2023 issued by the National Organization of Minority Architects; a scholarship serving minorities interested in a career in architecture, in school for architecture or is practicing or teaching architecture professionally in the Pittsburgh region
Burdett Assistantship Award
School of Architecture Awards Recipient
Winner of SoA’s $4,000 award open to all students intended to support projects and activities that will enhance the winning students’ future work. Research proposal focuses on studying and documenting vernacular architecture in South and Southeast Asia with the goal of understanding its role in water and biodiversity conservation. Travel to Thailand and Bali as a part of the research was conducted.
In collaboration with Vanshika Bhaiya
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Rhino (2D & 3D)
Revit
AutoCAD
Archicad
VRay
Enscape
Grasshopper
SketchUp
3D Printing/CNC
Microsoft Office
Modelmaking
Drafting/Drawing
Woodworking