Nazneen Cooper
Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture
Born and raised in the district of Malabar Hill, Mumbai, India. Ms. Cooper holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree, cum laude, from the University of Southern California (1989), and a Master in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University (1995.) She began her career at Harvard University as the Associate Planner at HPRE in 1995, and worked on numerous planning and building projects for the Graduate Schools in addition to urban design studies for the University's acquisitions in Allston. During her time in office with Central Administration, she collaborated on the GSD urban design studio Campus: Harvard + Allston Community. Ms. Cooper is presently the Assistant Dean for Campus Design & Planning, for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. In Fall 2006 she was a co-instructor for the GSD 1402 Option Studio: Maximum Mumbai Minimum Mumbai: Repositioning the Cotton Textile Mill Lands in Girangaon where in addition to her studio design instruction she provided detailed knowledge of the City of Mumbai and the various planning, administrative, civic, social and cultural organizations, values and practices as well as background to the issues of gender, race and religion in India. Ms. Cooper is a co-editor of the forthcoming publication "Maximum Mumbai, Minimum Mumbai" that catalogs the results of the Fall 2006 Design Studio.