Nicolas Azel
Associate
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Azel is an urban designer and analyst with a decade of experience blending computational design, resilience consulting, and landscape architecture to shape equitable, ecologically healthy built environments. Based in New York, he currently serves as an Associate and Senior Project Director at Thornton Tomasetti, after roles developing computational tools and products at KPF and leading community-focused projects at evolveEA. He teaches and has taught digital urban design and computational methods at Columbia and Carnegie Mellon, bringing a practitioner-researcher lens to classrooms and studios. Nicolas’s work pairs technical fluency in digital modeling and web/3D tools with on-the-ground stewardship—he’s even maintained wilderness trails—enabling pragmatic design solutions informed by historical and ecological context.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Landscape Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture at Cornell UniversityFryeburg AcademyBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Architecutrual studies and Urban Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Architecutrual studies and Urban Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Github Skills (35)
content-management-system10
cms10
javascript10
dashboard10
mysql10
no-code10
grasshopper10
typescript10
epsg10
geojson10
jamstack10
api10
rest10
headless-cms10
content-management10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Meta-Urban-Carbon/Meta-Urban-Carbon-Hack
Jun 2023 - Mar 2026
A 2023 Seattle AECTech Hackathon Project
Contributions:8 PRs, 32 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 9 months
nicoazel/BearGIS
Oct 2018 - Aug 2022
A GIS READ WRITE GRASSHOPPER PLUGIN
Contributions:2 releases, 94 commits, 41 PRs in 3 years 11 months
gisepsgesri-geojsongeojsongrasshopper
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