Roger Sherman, FAIA leads the Permanent Supportive and Affordable Housing Initiative—colloquially known as The Stone Soup Group–at Gensler LA. Since joining Gensler, he has authored affordable and supportive housing projects throughout Los Angeles, for for-profit and non-profit clients including Skid Row Housing Trust, Clifford Beers, Salvation Army, Volunteers of America, United Way, SOLA Impact, Dignity Moves, Logos Faith-based Development and City of LA. His project “Urban Awning” won a coveted PA Award from Architecture Magazine and a World-Changing Ideas Award from Fast Company in 2021.

A solo practitioner for 25+ years prior to joining Gensler, Roger’s work has been featured at TEDx and MoMA, in Newsweek and Fast Company and on CNN, and at the Venice and Rotterdam Architecture Biennales. Roger is a former Co-founder of cityLAB, an urban design thinktank at UCLA, where he is also an Adjunct Professor. A Senior Fellow at UToronto’s Global Cities Institute and at the NewCities Foundation, he is author of 3 books, including “LA Under the Influence: The Hidden Logic of Urban Property”, “RE American Dream: New Housing Prototypes for Los Angeles”. A former Harvard Wheelwright Fellow, he has taught and lectured widely, including at ASU, Harvard, Princeton, UC Berkeley, Michigan and Syracuse universities.