Siddharth Menon is a critical architect and human geographer of the built environment. His dissertation research looks at an ethnography of concrete as a building construction material in peri-urban Kochi, Kerala to highlight the macro and micro processes through which concrete is becoming a dominant and ubiquitous building material across rural and peri-urban India. Siddharth is also affiliated with the Center for South Asia and the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies.