Rhea Nayar
Rhea Nayar is a 2023 Master of Architecture graduate of the Weitzman School of Design. Having grown up in Hong Kong, she was constantly in awe of the ways history reveals itself in the built environment. Her work focuses on the temporality of architectural skin, structure, and system as an ever-changing accumulation of the past and present, and she is particularly interested in finding hybrid forms of representation to express her ideas. While at Penn, she has also valued the opportunity to collaborate with students by holding multiple teaching assistant positions and by taking multi-disciplinary courses in user experience design and city planning.
Over the last past three years, Rhea received the T-Square Club Fellowship, E. Lewis Dales Travelling Fellowship, James Smyth Warner Memorial Prize, and most recently, the AEDAS Fellowship, which is awarded to two rising third-year graduate students to support the University's initiative to promote student body diversity. She earned her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts in Architecture from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and has worked at firms in Hong Kong and New York.
Over the last past three years, Rhea received the T-Square Club Fellowship, E. Lewis Dales Travelling Fellowship, James Smyth Warner Memorial Prize, and most recently, the AEDAS Fellowship, which is awarded to two rising third-year graduate students to support the University's initiative to promote student body diversity. She earned her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts in Architecture from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and has worked at firms in Hong Kong and New York.
