Get to know: Alankrit Ganesh Rajagopalan

Where did you grow up?

I gre w up in South India, in Chennai, which is one of the largest cities in India. My family moved to Bangalore for a few years while I was a child, but then returned to Chennai - which is where my parents and brother still live.

Who are your role models?

My dad is on e of my role models and provides me with a lot of inspiration; he works very hard and is meticulous, which has inspired me with my own work ethic and organization once I moved to the United States.

What inspired you to purse Architecture?

Alankrit is a graduate student in the Master of Architecture program at North Carolina State University and will be embarking on his final year of graduate school this fall. He joined Gensler Raleigh in May and has been involved in multiple design studies and DT initiatives and has been an invaluable addition to the DTS Music Venue project team.

Alankrit, from all of us at Gensler Raleigh, it has been a pleasure working with and getting to know you over the last few months. Thank you for spending your summer with us and for your tremendous impact on your project teams. We wish the very best for you in your final year of graduate school!

As a child I e njoyed playing with legos and various mechanical toys, and always enjoyed taking things apart and understanding how to put them back together. I disliked most subjects in school as a child, so my father suggested I consider an educational path in architecture based on the things I did enjoy. Once I was in architecture school, for the very first time, I thoroughly enjoyed school!

If you had to pick three famous people to have dinner with, who would they be?

Tadao And o, Margot Robbie, Emma Stone

What inspires you?

I love t o watch art-related videos which focus on the analysis of art through the lens of light, shadow and emotion. This inspires my thinking about how we experience architecture and how a designer has the ability to evoke these senses and emotions through spatial design.