Ganesh Ramachandran is Senior Urban Designer at Goody Clancy Associates, Boston, MA. He has collaborated on a range of domestic and international award winning projects in campus planning, citywide comprehensive plans, downtown master plans, multi-family housing, transit oriented development, healthcare facilities planning and urban redevelopment plans. His work spans a spectrum of services, from conceptual planning, programmatic site capacity studies, project management and public outreach.
Ganesh completed his undergraduate work at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappali, India (formerly REC Trichy), where he received his first professional degree in architecture (BArch) in 1996. As a Graduate School Fellow, he earned his master of architecture (MArch) from the Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University in 1999. He then graduated from the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley with a post professional degree in Urban Design (MUD) in 2000.
Since then, he has worked in various design and leadership roles at Solomon ETC/ Wallace Roberts & Todd (WRT) and Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM), San Francisco. While at WRT he played a leading role for the design and project management of large scale multi-family housing projects such as the Toll Brothers Mayfield Mall Infill Housing Development in Mountain View, CA, the Docks Area Concept Plan in Sacramento, CA, and the redevelopment of Hunter's Point public housing in San Francisco. At SOM San Francsico, he played a key role in campus planning projects such as City College San Francisco Insitutional Masterplan, University City Specific Urban Design Plan in Shanghai, China, and the Long Range Development Plan for the first American university in the 21st century, the University of California, Merced. Outside of these positions, he has also worked as a senior design consultant for the Planning Center, Costa Mesa, CA, where he developed a comprehensive design handbook for multi-family housing typologies.
Ganesh has presented his work at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and American Planning Association (APA) national conventions, and the American Architectural Foundation's Sustainable Cities Workshop. He has given guest lectures at the University of California, Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
When not working on housing prototypes or facilitating a community charette, Ganesh can be spotted next to his full frame camera in blackboxes and concert halls, pressed against the viewfinder trying to capture the trajectories of gravity-defying bodies in space.