Associate Professor
Program Director for Interior Design
Fellow, Gene Edward Mikeska Endowed Chair for Interior Design
Igor Siddiqui is an architect, design scholar, and educator best known for simultaneously engaging design practice, scholarship, and pedagogy. Siddiqui’s work—variably manifested as objects, images, texts, and events—examines a broad range of situationally specific questions, with the overarching aim of linking design experimentation to public engagement. He is interested in the role that interiors play in architectural experiments, while also advocating for the value of experimentation in interiors as a distinct field of theoretical and applied knowledge. Siddiqui’s 2025 book Oblique Experiments: Claude Parent’s Architectural Installations (1969—1975) is one of the first English-language monographs dedicated to the French avant-garde architect Claude Parent and is the first comprehensive study of his experimental interior installations from the 1970s, known as practicables. He also recently edited Interior Experiments, a special themed triple-issue volume of Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture. The journal, for which Siddiqui has served as Editor-in-Chief, Co-Editor, and Associate Editor since 2016, has become one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed publications in the field worldwide.
Siddiqui has contributed numerous essays, chapters, and articles to journals, edited books, and magazines both nationally and internationally. His creative work has been shown at a range of venues including the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, the Gallery of Science and Technology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade, the Contemporary Austin, SITE Santa Fe, SXSW Eco, Fusebox Festival, Metro Show Art Fair, the Ogden Museum of Art, and Flux Factory, and has appeared in various professional and popular publications such as Dwell, Interior Design, the Architect’s Newspaper, Artforum, Texas Architect, and Smart Magazine.
Siddiqui regularly gives guest lectures, workshops, and presentations about his work. He has served as a visiting artist at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Confluence Institute in Paris and was recently selected as one of four international mentors for Rog Creathon in Ljubljana, a weeklong design event organized by the largest public maker space in Europe. In 2022, Siddiqui was awarded the IIDA Educator of the Year Award.
Prior to his appointment at UT Austin, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania, California College of the Arts, and Parsons the New School for Design.
Siddiqui is a registered architect in Texas and New York.
EDUCATION
- Master of Architecture, Yale University, 2003
- Bachelor of Architecture, Tulane University, 1998
PUBLICATIONS
Siddiqui, Igor. Oblique Experiments: Claude Parent’s Architectural Installations (1969–1975). San Francisco: Applied Research and Design Publishing, 2025.
Siddiqui, Igor. "Interior Experiments—or, Experimental Interiors." Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture 14, no. 1–3 (2024): 1–8. (Introduction to the edited special theme volume Interior Experiments.)
Siddiqui, Igor. “Claude Parent’s Oblique Travels: From Architectural Form to Social Participation.” The Plan Journal: Research in Architecture Design and Urbanism 9, no.1 (2024): 79–101.
Siddiqui, Igor. “Jean-Michel Wilmotte’s Interior Urban Design as a Model of Public Interior Practice.” In Public Interiority: Exploring Interiors in the Public Realm, edited by Liz Teston, 149–159. London: Routledge, 2024.“Oblique/Interior.” In Appropriate(d) Interiors, edited by Deborah Schneiderman, Anca I. Lasc and Karin Tehve, 114-130. London: Routledge, 2022.
“Foreword.” In Digital Fabrication in Interior Design, edited by Jonathon Anderson and Lois Weinthal, xv-xviii. London: Routledge, 2022.
“Conversation with Claudia Wieser.” In Claudia Wieser: Generations, edited by Rachel Adams and Jennifer Carty, 143-148. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
“Slashed Interiors: Text/Space.” Interiority, no. 3 (2020): 5-20.
“Dioramas.” Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture 8, no. 3 (2017): 169-178.
“Oblique Interior.” Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture 8, no. 1-2 (2017): 8-15.
“Edible.” International Journal of Interior Architecture and Spatial Design 4 (2016): 176-183.
“Topically Embedded: Surface as Graphic Material.” In Textile Technology and Design: From Interior Space to Outer Space, edited by Deborah Schneiderman and Alexa Griffith Winton, 73-84. London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2016.
“Digital Representation and Fabrication.” In The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design, edited by Graeme Brooker and Lois Weinthal, 454–467. London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2013.
“Surface Fatigue.” In Soft Shells: Porous and Deployable Architectural Screens, edited by Sophia Vyzoviti, 101–110. Amsterdam: BIS Publishers, 2011.
“Tessellated Floorscape (2010– ): interior acts of production, siting, and participation.” IDEA Journal: Interior Ecologies 10 (2010): 45–53.
