I am RAD

T. R. Radhakrishnan is a Design Scientist whose practice addresses complex urban problems through mathematically grounded creative design research. He uses state-of-the-art digital tools to generate imaginative artistic projections that critically and rapidly analyze historical and contemporary urban formations and model potential future trajectories via design thinking and storytelling in architecture.

His core research investigates the physical concept of action through questions of agency at the time of the Anthropocene. He approaches this inquiry via the science of the artificial and its relationship to natural science and philosophy. Building on his meditative theses and using art as method, his current work advances a biologically informed hypothesis that conceptualizes cities as artificial organisms whose metropolitan networks urbanize Earth’s landscape. These urban formations are rendered legible and operable through satellite imagery, geospatial data, neural information processing systems, parametric modeling, physics-based rendering, and urban digital twins. The aim is to develop smart and sustainable technologies for operating cities within planetary systems in response to climate change, while also advancing speculative models of interplanetary urbanization. Its broader contribution is to contemporary discourse in design science.

Radhakrishnan grew up in Chennai, India, where he completed a Bachelor of Architecture at the Anna University School of Architecture and Planning in 2019. He later moved to Cambridge, USA, to complete a Master of Architecture in Urban Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2023. He has received training from leading design practices across Asia, Europe, and the United States. His professional experience spans independent consulting and collaborations with institutions and research laboratories on the design of buildings, cities, and products. His portfolio of collaborative work has been recognized by international peer-reviewed design platforms.