Principal, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, Seattle, WA
Lecture Title: Big Small Moves: Designing From—And For—The Local in an Overscaled Era
April 8, 2021

Shannon Nichol is a founding principal of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol. Her designs are widely recognized for being deeply embedded in their neighborhoods and natural contexts. Shannon’s work incorporates complex functions into simple frameworks and refined landforms.

GGN is the recipient of the 2017 ASLA National Landscape Architecture Firm Award and in 2011, Shannon and her partners received the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture. Her work has received multiple Design Excellence and Honor Awards from ASLA and AIA. Shannon is a Fellow of the ASLA and an honorary member of the AIA (Seattle). She lectures internationally, frequently juries for design awards, and serves on advisory committees for universities and non-profits.