Cassim Shepard is the founding editor-in-chief of Urban Omnibus, the online publication of The Architectural League of New York. He is the 2019 Guggenheim Fellow for Architecture, Planning, and Design. For the past six years, he has worked with hundreds of local architects, designers, artists, writers, and public servants to share their stories of urban innovation, with a particular emphasis on housing, infrastructure, and the changing nature of cultural institutions. In addition to his editorial role, Shepard makes films about the design, planning, and experience of cities and places. His film and video work has been screened at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Ford Foundation, and the United Nations, among many other venues around the world. His writing on urbanism has appeared in Next City, Places, Domus, Public Culture, as well as in books and catalogues documenting work by Geoff Manaugh, David Adjaye, and others. He has taught courses at the Cities Programme of the London School of Economics and Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. From 2010 to 2013, he was a Poiesis Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He studied filmmaking at Harvard University, urban geography at the University of London, and urban planning at MIT.
