Romil Sheth on Resiliency, Diversity, & Place-Making in Contemporary Urban Design
On 31-March, Romil Sheth from Sasaki discussed Resiliency, Diversity, & Place-Making in Contemporary Urban Design in the seventh installment of the 2022 Spring Urbanism Lecture Series, co-hosted by the City Design & Development Program (CDD), SMArchS Urbanism Program, and Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT.
Romil is an urban designer and architect whose work includes campuses, student housing, K-12 facilities, urban revitalization, innovation districts, and waterfronts. Romil holds a master of urban design and a master of science in architecture from the University of Michigan, and received his bachelor of architecture from CEPT University in India. His practice connects visionary planning and urban design by engaging a diversity of issues, multiple constituents, and varying scales across a range of contexts. He adopts a collaborative approach to design, working with integrated teams that engage landscape, strategic planning, and architecture.
Romil’s work examines the complex threshold between capital driven development and what he calls the vernacular fabric of the urban village. To illustrate the nuances of these opposing spaces, Romil presented Sasaki’s recent project, a comprehensive urban resiliency plan for District Four in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
By Joris Komen, Norman B. (1938) and Muriel Leventhal Fellow, Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism.
