Merge Studio, under the leadership of Varun Kohli has led various global projects and currently takes on select impactful projects.

Varun is an architect, designer, environmental urbanist and advisor focused on  sustainable and equitable future. In the past, he has worked on  integrating environmental design processes with global design firms  including HOK and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, as well as his own  practice, Merge Studio, all based out of New York. He currently leads  strategic design, planning and sustainability efforts for Battery Park  City Authority in lower Manhattan, with a focus on urban resiliency and  de-carbonization. Varun has also taught courses at Harvard GSD and  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is a frequent guest critic at  Princeton School of Architecture and U-Penn Design.

As a Board member for Pokhrama Foundation,  his primary focus is in helping design and build a carbon-neutral  campus in the village of Pokhrama located in remote northern India. The  campus is being designed in collaboration with designers and leaders in  India to meet the needs of its students and teachers, where buildings  also become part of the pedagogical toolkit for the academic community.