PROFILE
Roger Sherman is director of Roger Sherman Architecture and Urban Design, and coordinator of the 413/413 core studio sequence at UCLA, dealing with landscape and urbanism. He has taught at the SCI-ARC, where he was director of the postgraduate program Fresh Urbs, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and University of Michigan amongst other institutions. He is co-director, with Professor Dana Cuff, of citylab, a think tank on contemporary urban issues. Sherman's work has been featured in Newsweek, and on CNN International, the History Channel and the BBC, and exhibited at the 2010 Venice Biennale ("Playa Rosa"), the 2009 Rotterdam Biennale ("TargetWorld: Thinking Outside the Big Box", the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art ("Chia Mesa"), and at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London ("Flex/Deck/Spec House", 2005). He is the author of and contributor to several books, including Re American Dream: Six Housing Prototypes for Los Angeles (Princeton Architectural Press, 1995); L.A. Under the Influence: The Hidden Logic of Urban Property (University of Minnesota Press, 2010); and most recently, with Prof. Cuff, Fast Forward Urbanism: Rethinking Architecture's Engagement with the City (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011). His work and writing has appeared in numerous other publications, most recently On Farming (Actar, 2010), and The Infrastructural City (Actar, 2010). Sherman has also received numerous design awards American Institute of Architects, including the 3-in-1 House in Santa Monica; Railyard Park in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Gateway Park in Toledo, Ohio; and Repark (Freshkills Landfill End Use Plan) on Staten Island in New York. The 3-in-1 House won a Home-of-the-Year award from Architect Magazine in 2006. A graduate with Distinction from the Harvard Design School, Sherman was a recipient of the SOM and Wheelwright traveling fellowships. He has lectured widely, including at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Zocalo Public Square, Harvard and Princeton universities, amongst others.
roger.sherman@aud.ucla.edu
EDUCATION
M.A., Harvard University- GSD
B.A., University of Pennsylvania
STUDIO
Roger Sherman Architecture and Urban Design
AWARDS
2009 LARC Award, “Target: Thinking Out of the Big Box”
2008 First Merit Award, Chia Mesa, Flip-a-Strip Competition
2008 “Star of Design” (Urban Design), Pacific Design Center/WestWeek
2007 AIA Los Angeles, NextLA Award, Railyard Park, Santa Fe,
2007 AIA Los Angeles, NextLA Award, Gateway Park, Toledo,
2006 Home of the Year Award, 3-in-1 House, Architect Magazine
2006 Canadian Center for Architecture, Finalist, James Stirling Memorial Lectures on the City
2004 AIA Los Angeles Design Award, (3 - in - 1 House)
2003 P/A Honor Award, RePark: Freshkills Landfill End Use Plan
2003 American Society of Landscape ArchitectsHonor Award,
RePark: Freshkills Landfill End Use Plan
2002 AIA Los Angeles, NextLA Award, RePark: Freshkills Landfill End Use Plan
Built Work:
2003 3-in-1 House, Santa Monica, CA, 2003
Competitions:
2005 Second Place, Toledo Gateway Park Design competition
2002 Second Place, Railyard Park Design Competition
2001 Second Place, Freshkills LandFill to Landscape Design Competition
