Madhura Vaze

EDUCATION
Master of Landscape Architecture + Urban Design Certificate, University of Virginia, Dec 2024
Bachelor of Architecture, Savitribai Phule Pune University, 2020

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
Licensed Architect, India

Madhura Vaze is a Research Associate at the Landscape Infrastructure Design Lab (LIDL) in Auburn University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, where she contributes to place-specific natural infrastructure in culturally and ecologically diverse landscapes along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.

She approaches landscape architecture as a lens to reveal invisible layers of urban and natural systems, translating these insights into constructed environments. Her research and design work spans coastal, forest, urban and mountain landscapes, with a focus on ecological infrastructure, landscape accessibility and cultural history. Across these diverse terrains, she pushes the conventional boundaries of the field, examining how landscapes are perceived, experienced, positioned, planned, designed, managed and controlled across personal, community and infrastructural scales. Her work explores the role of landscape architecture in addressing the challenges of climate change, urbanization and socio-ecological inequity, not only through design but also through curiosity, inquiry, collaboration and critical reflection.

Before joining Auburn University, Vaze was a research and teaching assistant at the University of Virginia and an intern at Reed Hilderbrand. Prior to that, she practiced as an Architect at Ravi and Varsha Gavandi Landscape Architects and worked as a Research Associate at BNCA College of Architecture in India.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Landscape Systems
Landscape Fieldwork
Landscape Communication
Artificial Intelligence in Landscape Architecture