Savalee Tikle (MAUD ’26) has been selected as one of two recipients of the Paul Katz Fellowship, a $25,000 award administered by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) to support independent, internationally focused architectural research. Established in honor of the late KPF principal and president Paul Katz, the fellowship is awarded to graduating master of architecture students from five institutions where Katz studied or taught—Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania. This year’s fellows will conduct research in London, England.
Tikle’s project focuses on London’s new Elizabeth Line, framing it as a test case for equitable urban development. Her research asks whether transit-led growth can produce more inclusive urban form or instead reinforces market-driven housing and socio-spatial inequality.
An architect and urban research practitioner from Mumbai, Tikle is graduating from the GSD with a master of architecture in urban design, working at the intersection of sustainable design and data-driven community advocacy. Her work spans community-based research, policy development, and multi-sectoral studies on issues ranging from transportation to gender equity, while her experience includes roles at Perkins Eastman Architects and SEArch Design Studio, as well as multiple fellowships in India focused on civic engagement and urban research. As a 2025 Harvard Bloomberg Summer Fellow in Indiana, she developed a GIS-based blight database and a revitalization model to transform underutilized sites.
For the 2025/26 academic year, Tikle served as graduate student associate for the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University and was a recipient of the Gennosuke Obata Fellowship.
