Apurva Purandare, AIA works in Architecture and Planning in Los Angeles, CA.

She is an internationally experienced Designer and a licensed Architect in California, US and in India. Over the span of her career, she has had the pleasure of collaborating with individuals from a wide range of disciplines.

She is a UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, M.Arch. alum and was part of the Surpastudio by Architect Thom Mayne in 2015. She was a recipient of the JN Tata endowment for higher education in 2013. 

She's passionate and skilled in a range of building typologies and currently works as a Project Architect at Gensler. Prior to that, she has worked at architecture firms in Los Angeles and Mumbai and was a researcher focused on the study and documentation of informal urban sprawl in Mumbai city. She hopes to build experience as an Architect while advancing her passion for theory and research.