Ganesh Ramachandran has over ten years of experience working as an urban designer, planner and architect and has collaborated on a range of domestic and international projects in campus planning, multi-family housing, transit oriented development, healthcare facilities planning and urban redevelopment. His work spans a spectrum of services from conceptual planning, preliminary site capacity studies, project management and public outreach.

Ganesh completed his undergraduate work at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappali, India (formerly REC Trichy), where he received his first professional degree in architecture (BArch) in 1996. As a Graduate School Fellow, he earned his master of architecture (MArch) from the Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University in 1999. He then graduated from the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley with a post professional degree in Urban Design (MUD) in 2000.

Since then, has worked as a senior urban designer and project director at Solomon ETC/ Wallace Roberts and Todd LLC, and at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, San Francisco. Since 2007 he has been a senior design consultant for the southern california based planning and policy firm The Planning Center. While at WRT he played a leading role for the design and project management of large scale multi-family housing projects such as the Toll Brothers Mayfield Mall Infill Housing Development in Mountain View, CA, Docks Area Concept Plan in Sacramento, CA, and the redevelopment of Hunters Point public housing in San Francisco. At SOM San Francsico, he played a key role in campus planning projects such as City College San Francisco Insitutional Masterplan, University City Specific Urban Design Plan in Shanghai, China, and the Long Range Development Plan for the first American university in the 21st century, the University of California, Merced.

Ganesh has been a regular guest critic for advanced planning and design studios at the University of California at Berkeley. He is an avid photographer and a graphic artist and draws inspiration from his extensive travels and from his diverse background in architecture and urbanism.