January 2025: Newly Licensed Architect

AIA Cincinnati congratulates member Mukta Rai Saxena who recently passed her ARE exams to become a licensed architect, moving from Associate AIA to full AIA! Kudos for your hard work and impressive accomplishments!

Mukta Rai Saxena, AIA, LEED GA

Architect

Champlin Architecture

Mukta grew up and practiced in India till 2017. In a career spanning more than 15 years in the construction industry, she worked as architect, landscape designer, and as assistant professor in an architecture university, before relocating to the USA.

Her move came as a challenge to get re-established. Getting a license meant getting her master’s degree followed by the AXP hours and ARE exams in the USA. She graduated from the University of Cincinnati M. Arch in 2021 and successfully got her license in December of 2024. During her career here in the USA, she has worked in Michigan and Ohio at OHM advisors, WTA architects, and currently works at Champlin Architecture. Mukta believes that the buildings need to be in context to the place, narrate the user’s story, and add to the well being of the users by bringing nature and people together. She is a strong advocate of sustainability and passive design strategies. She has been a member of the AIA Cincinnati COTE committee since Jan 2024 and is serving on the Green Umbrella Leadership Committee.

In her free time, Mukta enjoys Indian classical music by dancing and singing.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Architecture, Indian institute of Technology Roorkee, India - 1997

Master of Architecture, University of Cincinnati, Ohio – 2023

CREDENTIALS

LEED Green Associate - June 2020 – June 2026

PUBLISHED PAPERS

Paper “Unbuilt Environment in Megacities: Open spaces for Innovation, Research and Design for Health” p-ISSN: 2350-0077, e-ISSN:2350-0255, page 9 - 14, January – March 2016

Paper “Current trends: Community Garden Design in India” p-ISSN:2349-8404, e-ISSN:2349-879X, page 143 - 146, January – March 2016

Paper “Role of Open spaces in Disaster Management” published in conference journal 2016 hosted by GD Goenka University

Published article: “Providing Sustainable and Affordable Food in Cities” magazine Shashwat; Vol -3, Issue - 4, Dec 2017, page 28 - 31