Dana Getman
Dana Getman is a principal at SHoP, where she has led some of the firm's most complex mixed-use and institutional work for nearly 15 years. She has a particular expertise in and passion for community-centered architecture, collaborating with clients, institutional groups, and local stakeholders as part of the design process in projects such as the East River Waterfront and Essex Crossing in New York City. Her current projects include the design for 3401 South La Cienega, a mixed housing and office project in Los Angeles, the Steinway Tower in New York City, Fulbright University Vietnam, the plans for several New Embassy Compounds around the world via the U.S. Department of State OBO Design Excellence Program, and the recently completed National Veterans Resource Center at Syracuse University.
Dana received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture from Yale University. She has taught studios at Cornell University in New York City (2019, 2020), Yale University, and Columbia University. She has been the Urban Land Institute of New York's vice-chair of the Women's Leadership Initiative, a member of the Urban Land Institute's National University Development & Innovation Council, and a member of the Urban Planning Committee at the Municipal Art Society.