SHANNON BASSETT: ARCHITECT & URBAN DESIGNER
Masters of Architecture and Urban Design (MAUD)_Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Bachelors of Architecture with Distinction, Carleton University School of Architecture - Ottawa, Canada

Shannon Bassett has been practicing and teaching architecture and urbanism for the past (7) years in the Cambridge-Boston area. Her interest in cultural and regional landscapes as well as dynamic topograhphies and infrastructure permeates all aspects of her design work, the spectrum of which spans from the scale of the nuts and bolts of technical architecture to the scales of landscape systems and urban design.

While at the Harvard GSD she participated in a number of urban design studios including the re-design of Martyr's Square in Lebanon, Beirut sponsored by the Aga Khan and most recently prior to Hurricane Katrina., an urban design studio in New Orleans, LA. Her research and analysis on dynamic topographies linked to land uses, levee defensive strategies as well as a design intervention for the waterfront is featured in the subsequent studio publication, New Orleans: Strategies for a City in Soft Land edied by J. Busquets. c2005. While at Harvard she was also a research assistant for the Center for Urban Development Studies, assisting with the prepartion of the Chapter on finacing urban shelter in the 2005 United Nations Global report. Research intersts include post-industrial landscapes, dynamic topographies + visionary urban design including Soviet architecture+urbanism during the 1970's and 1980's.

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