Shanti Levy

Biography

Shanti Fjord Levy, PLA, ASLA, is a co-founding principal of Red Clay Landscape Architecture based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Red Clay strives to shape landscapes that are grounded in the particularities of site, promote resilient ecosystems and resonate with those that inhabit them.

Prior to starting Red Clay Landscape Architecture, Shanti worked with Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects and D.I.R.T.studio. She seeks ways for design to reveal landscape identity and to serve as a catalyst for engagement—with one’s senses, the passing of time, natural forces, and public life.

Shanti earned a Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Architecture from the University of Virginia, where she was awarded the top academic honor from both programs and served as editor for two volumes of the academic journal, lunch. As recipient of the Pelliccia Traveling Fellowship, Shanti investigated layered edges in the city of Rome. Through design research, she has explored how water infrastructure can multitask as public space and developed tools to reclaim the suburban landscape. She has an undergraduate background in Latin American Studies and Visual Arts from Brown University.