Instructor: Shannon Nichol

Shannon Nichol
Shannon Nichol, a founding principal of GGN, stewards the firm's distinct approach to design and collaboration, bringing curiosity, humility, humor, and deep creativity to projects and the studio. Her designs - including San Francisco's India Basin Waterfront Parks, the Lurie Garden in Chicago, and the Gates Foundation Campus-are widely recognized as distinct landforms and welcoming places embedded in local history, culture, and native ecologies. Shannon's recent and current projects include the Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture, Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center and the Seattle Residence: Native Gardens.

Shannon is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects (Seattle). Among many other honors, she and her partners received the Smithsonian's 2011 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture, and GGN received the 2017 ASLA National Landscape Architecture Firm Award. Shannon's projects have been recognized with the ASLA National Awards of Excellence, ASLA and AIA Honor Awards, Tucker Design Awards, Great Places Awards from the Environmental Design Research Association, and Pacific Horticulture's inaugural Design Futurist Award.

Classes by this instructor


NYBG's 26th Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series welcomes three distinguished, innovative landscape architects—Shannon Nichol, Shane Coen, and Lauren Stimson—whose work explores the multidimensional relationship between design and nature. Each speaker will share projects ranging from residential landscapes to museums, more...
252LAN801AO 10/15 Tu 6:30pm-7:30pm Nichol
Coen
Stimson
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As co-founder of Seattle-based landscape design firm GGN, Shannon Nichol is committed to specifying local native plant palettes through long-term and norm-breaking collaborations with local horticulturalists and landscape managers around the world. Stemming from a lifelong enthusiasm and amateur familiarity more...
252LAN801BO 10/15 Tu 6:30pm-7:30pm Nichol
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