Sonam Sherpa

Sonam Sherpa is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP. He has served as an Associate Architect at Drake/Anderson working on high-end residential projects in the tri-state area. He works closely with the United Sherpa Association, a non-profit corporation based in Queens, where he is part of a team designing a large-scale cultural center located in Wallkill, NY. Sonam is currently working on a housing project in Kathmandu and a community center in the Solukhumbu district using on-site materials and low-tech Khumbu construction methods. His work centers on community empowerment, natural disaster relief, and ethical material sourcing, in pursuit of addressing the vulnerabilities within our current social and ecological systems.

Sonam received his Bachelor of Architecture from the Spitzer School of Architecture in the City College of New York and a Master of Science degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University GSAPP.