Anthony Acciavatti is Diana Balmori Assistant Professor at the Yale University School of Architecture. He will present the 2025 Laurinda Spear Endowed Lecture in Architecture, co-sponsored by the Department of Visual Art. Acciavatti was awarded the Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano/Kate Lancaster Brewster Fellowship in Landscape Architecture at the American Academy in Rome (2024-25) and a Senior Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies (2024-26). Acciavatti works at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and the history of science and technology.
In 2024, he exhibited ongoing research at the Yale School of Architecture on the hidden front lines of climate change: groundwater extraction. Based on nearly two decades of work, Groundwater Earth: The World before and after the Tubewell, investigates how our thirst for water has radically reshaped cities and farms across the world. The exhibition will travel to Asia in 2025.
He is the author of Ganges Water Machine: Designing New India’s Ancient River (Applied Research & Design, 2015), which is the first comprehensive mapping and environmental history of the Ganges River Basin in over half a century. 
Along with the book, Acciavatti designed his own instruments to map the choreography of soils, cities, and agriculture across the Ganges River basin. In 2023 the Victoria and Albert Museum in London acquired these instruments, along with his drawings and photographs, for the permanent collection.
In 2025, marking two decades of work in South Asia, Acciavatti will publish The Values of Imprecision: Tools for Navigating Environmental Uncertainty. The book explores the making of instruments to visualize environmental change and their relationship to objects from the histories of science and art.
Building on nearly two decades worth of research, Acciavatti currently leads Ganges Lab at Collaborative Earth. Composed of a trans-disciplinary group of scientists, engineers, and designers, the lab is developing new forms of civic infrastructure that integrates the rhythms of the monsoons with urban growth and agricultural production.
Trained in architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design and Harvard University, in the history of science at Princeton University, and a Fulbright Scholar in the department of geography and town and country planning at the University of Allahabad, Acciavatti is currently the Diana Balmori Assistant Professor at Yale University.
He is a partner of Somatic Collaborative in New York and a founding director of Manifest Institute, which publishes Manifest: A Journal of the Americas. His work and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Public Domain Review, MOLD, Cabinet, Indian Express, Architectural Design, Harvard Design Magazine, Bracket, and Topos among other places.