Shubhra Goel

Shubhra joined Nelson Byrd Woltz in 2025 after receiving a Master of Landscape Architecture with a certificate in Urban Design from the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, her team received the National ASLA Award of Merit for their design project in Sobral, Brazil, which explored landscape systems as a framework for urban development. She worked as a Design Fellow with PennPraxis, contributing to their comprehensive plan for New Bolton’s 700-acre working farm. This experience deepened her understanding of large-scale agricultural planning and systems-based design.

She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Chandigarh College of Architecture and has lived and worked in the U.S., Germany, and India. Her early years growing up and working as an architect in Chandigarh continue to inform her belief in design as a tool to shape meaningful everyday experiences. As a landscape architect, she is driven by the holistic approach of larger systems thinking as well as the intimate, transformative impact of landscapes where every season brings a new narrative.

Before joining NBW, she worked at Todd Jersey Architecture in Berkeley and Studio Aureole in Chandigarh. She also co-founded HUMID (Humans In Design), an independent design practice focused on small-scale residential and permaculture-inspired farm projects. She enjoys exploring printmaking techniques as alternative modes of representation and has led several workshops with Chalo Chalein, a community-led collective in Chandigarh.