Sarrah Khan is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP and teaches Integrated Design Building Systems.
Sarrah is also a professional engineer and architect. She is the founding partner of
Agencie Architecture & Engineering PC, a comprehensive architecture, engineering
and build office in Tribeca. Since it’s inception in 2007, Agencie has completed over
117 projects in excess of $132MM worth of capital improvement costs.
Agencie is a leader in special structures and technically crafted projects as best
illustrated in the project Urban Umbrella which won the NYC Department of Buildings
competition for the redesign of sidewalk sheds. Sarrah leads the firms'structures and
retail work. Recent projects include Gucci stores US wide and the historic AKA Hotel at
Times Square.
Prior to founding Agencie, Sarrah worked for Bernard Tschumi and also apprenticed at
Buro Happold Engineering, where she engineered some of the most geometrically complex structures in the world, including the roof at the United States Institute of
Peace and the 2002 Winter Olympics Medals Arch.
Sarrah has a Master of Science in Civil Engineering and Master of Architecture from
Columbia University. Her bachelor degree is in Civil Engineering from McGill University
in Montreal. A career-long teacher, Sarrah has also taught at Yale University and
Georgia Tech.