Shannon Nichol is a founding partner of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol. Nichol’s designs - including Millennium Park’s Lurie Garden, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus, and Boston’s North End Parks - are widely recognized for being deeply embedded in their neighborhoods and locally native ecologies. Recent and current projects include India Basin Shoreline Park, the Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture, Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center, and the Seattle Residence: Native Gardens.
Nichol is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects (Seattle). She and her partners received the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture in 2011, and GGN was the recipient of the 2017 ASLA National Landscape Architecture Firm Award. Shannon’s projects have been recognized with ASLA National Awards of Excellence, ASLA and AIA Honor Awards, Tucker Design Awards, and Great Places Awards from the Environmental Design Research Association.
Throughout her career, Nichol has consistently engaged in a wide range of volunteer and educational activities. Her most recent guest lectures have included Cornell University, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the Washington Native Plant Society. Nichol delivered the Sasaki Day KeyNote Lecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2017, and she and Jennifer Guthrie were the Glimcher Distinguished Visiting Professors at Ohio State’s Knowlton School in 2015. Nichol’s work has been exhibited at several university galleries, and she has also contributed to important design publications, including A+U Magazine and Representing Landscapes: Analogue edited by Nadia Amoroso. Reflecting her longtime advocacy for restoring both native plants and walkable streets into contemporary life, Nichol currently serves on the board of directors for Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center and Seattle Neighborhood Greenways.
Nichol is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects (Seattle). She and her partners received the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture in 2011, and GGN was the recipient of the 2017 ASLA National Landscape Architecture Firm Award. Shannon’s projects have been recognized with ASLA National Awards of Excellence, ASLA and AIA Honor Awards, Tucker Design Awards, and Great Places Awards from the Environmental Design Research Association.
Throughout her career, Nichol has consistently engaged in a wide range of volunteer and educational activities. Her most recent guest lectures have included Cornell University, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the Washington Native Plant Society. Nichol delivered the Sasaki Day KeyNote Lecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2017, and she and Jennifer Guthrie were the Glimcher Distinguished Visiting Professors at Ohio State’s Knowlton School in 2015. Nichol’s work has been exhibited at several university galleries, and she has also contributed to important design publications, including A+U Magazine and Representing Landscapes: Analogue edited by Nadia Amoroso. Reflecting her longtime advocacy for restoring both native plants and walkable streets into contemporary life, Nichol currently serves on the board of directors for Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center and Seattle Neighborhood Greenways.
