Indovina Associates Architects

Shimon Zimbovsky

Shimon received a Bachelors of Landscape Architecture degree in 2009 and a Masters of Landscape Architecture in 2013 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Prior to graduate school, he was awarded the university’s Ryerson Traveling Fellowship, allowing him to study approaches to water sensitive planning through sustainable urban design in Israel. In his fieldwork, he interviewed twenty-two leading researchers and professionals in the field and developed comprehensive performance case studies of ten sites throughout the country that employ constructed wetlands to treat wastewater at various scales, levels of complexity and degrees of urbanization.

He is passionate about the ways in which the built environment can impact human health and wellbeing and is an Adjunct Professor at Chatham University, where he teaches Digital Drawing and Building Codes in the Interior Architecture Program.

In his past experience, he developed post-occupancy evaluations of urban design projects, nature-based playgrounds and healing gardens in Chicago. Later, he gained valuable project management experience in a small Squirrel Hill architecture firm specializing in commercial and residential design.