Cassim Shepard

Distinguished Lecturer

Main Affiliation

Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture

Building

Spitzer School of Architecture

Office

SSA2M05

Phone

212-650-6762

Email

cshepard@ccny.cuny.edu

Website

Cassim Shepard

Educational Credentials

  • Master of City Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
  • MA, Urban Geography, Kings College London, 2004
  • BA (honors), Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, 2001

Teaching Experience

  • City College of New York, 2022-present
  • Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), 2016-2021

Professional Experience

  • Principal, S/Q Projects, 2010-present
  • Founding Editor, Urban Omnibus, 2008-2014
  • Planner, Pfeiffer Partners, 2008

Selected Publications and Recent Research

  • Publications:
    • Citymakers: the Culture and Craft of Practical Urbanism. New York: Monacelli Press, 2017
    • 鈥淚stanbul: Who Makes a City?鈥 Stranger鈥檚 Guide Issue 8: The Mediterranean, Fall 2020
    • 鈥淢ontage Urbanism: On Essence, Fragment and Increment.鈥 Public Culture Volume 26, Spring 2013. (peer-reviewed)
    • 鈥淭he Field of Struggle, The Office and the Flat: Protest and Aspiration in a Mumbai Slum.鈥 Public Culture Volume 26, Spring 2013. (peer-reviewed)
    • Shepard, Cassim. 鈥淪ensory Devices.鈥 Landscape Futures, edited by Geoff Manaugh. Actar Press / Nevada Museum of Art
    • 鈥淭he Gwanju River Reading Room.鈥 Essay (co-authored with Taiye Selasi) accompanying an architectural folly designed by David Adjaye for the Gwanju Biennale 2013. Hatje Cantz Press
    • 鈥淥f Timeshares and Tenements鈥 in Domus, May, 2011
    • 鈥淥n Data and Design.鈥 Next City (formerly Next American City) Spring, 2011 鈥淧ostopolis: On Urban Portraiture.鈥 Places. Published July, 2010