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1984 Master of Architecture
Roger Sherman

Roger Sherman traveled to Austria, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Yugoslavia.

Roger Sherman
Harvard University

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Roger Sherman
Harvard University

Roger Sherman

leads the Permanent Supportive Housing Initiative at Gensler LA. His work has been featured at TEDx and MoMA, in Newsweek and Fast Company and on CNN, and at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Since joining Gensler, he has authored affordable and supportive housing projects throughout Los Angeles, for for-profit and nonprofit clients including Skid Row Housing Trust, Clifford Beers, FlyAway Homes, United Way, and SOLA Impact. His project “Urban Awning” won a coveted PA Award from Architecture Magazine and a World-Changing Ideas Award from Fast Company in 2021. Sherman is former codirector of cityLAB, an urban design thinktank at UCLA. A Senior Fellow at UToronto’s Global Cities Institute and at the NewCities Foundation, he is author of three books, including LA Under the Influence: The Hidden Logic of Urban Property, and has taught and lectured widely.

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