Gullivar Shepard

Gullivar Shepard is a Partner of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. While originally trained as an architect and a cultural anthropologist, he has been a landscape architect for 25 years and has long been a guiding force at MVVA by steering many of the firm’s urban-scale projects.

Gullivar is the lead planner and designer for the Waterloo Greenway in Austin, TX. He is recognized for his skill in navigating programmatic requirements, regulatory and jurisdictional hurdles, and problematic site conditions to create rich public spaces. Gullivar’s interdisciplinary perspective always aims to bridge the technical systems-thinking and the cultural considerations of public space within the design process.

Gullivar received a Master of Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where he was awarded the Araldo A. Cossutta Annual Prize for Design Excellence. He joined MVVA in 1999.