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Igor Siddiqui, RA is Associate Professor of Architecture and Interior Design at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has served as a full-time faculty member since 2009. He currently holds the Gene Edward Mikeska Endowed Chair and is in his fifth year in the role of Program Director for Interior Design at the School of Architecture.
Siddiqui’s academic work – including teaching, research, and creative scholarship – contributes to the field of interiors as a body of theoretical and applied knowledge with a critical role in contemporary culture, while also seeking to expand what an architect does and looks like in the 21st century. His projects have been exhibited at a range of venues including at the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, the Contemporary Austin, SITE Santa Fe, SxSW, 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’s academic writing includes contributions to books Digital Fabrication in Interior Design, Appropriate(d) Interiors, Textile Technology and Design: from Interior Space to Outer Space and The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design, and has appeared in peer-reviewed journals Interiors, Interiority, IDEA Journal, and International Journal of Interior Architecture and Spatial Design. After five years of service as Associate Editor for Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture (published by Taylor & Francis), Siddiqui was recently appointed as the journal’s Coeditor-in-Chief. In 2022 he was named the Educator of the Year by IIDA.
Prior to establishing his own practice in 2006, Siddiqui worked with Kohn Pedersen Fox and 1100:Architect in New York City. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Parsons School of Design, Cranbrook Academy, NYIT, and California College of the Arts. Siddiqui studied architecture at Yale and Tulane and is a registered architect in New York and Texas. He was born and raised in Croatia and currently splits his time between Austin, Texas and Paris, France.
