I’m Aishwarya Vardhan, a 26 year old M.Arch 1 student at Manchester School of Architecture, with my architectural grounding shaped through education and practice in India. Growing up surrounded by history, culture, and lived traditions gave me an early understanding of how architecture is deeply rooted in memory and experience. Working in India taught me to read context as a narrative rather than a backdrop. Coming here, I am searching for what architecture could be. Influenced by Louis Kahn, Tadao Ando, and Caravaggio, I am drawn to light, silence, and shadow. Art, cinema, and photography guide this search as ways of seeing, questioning, and dwelling in the unknown.